SENDING HAND-WRITING BY PHOTOGRAPHY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19011, 6 November 1923, Page 8

SENDING HAND-WRITING BY PHOTOGRAPHY.

In the exact handwriting of the sender messages are being sent over telegraph wires in .Franco at the rate of from 75 to ICO words in three minutes. Written on any kind of paper, a special ink is used that leaves a solid deposit and a slightly raised elevation when dry. This document is wrapped on a cylinder that revolves the message under a needle similar to that on a phonograph. Every time the point passes over one of the raised lines of the message an electric current is interrupted. Every momentary stoppage of the current at the sending station causes a. beam of light to be directed against a similar cylinder at the receiving end, carrying a piece of sensitive paper! When finished the photographic blank is removed and developed, giving aji autographic reproduction of the original message. The apparatus ig now installed in several stations operated by the .trench Government and has proved successful.

GOLDEN EAGLE’S HAUNT. CHIMNEY STACK EYRIE. v A strange bird of great size roosts daily on the peak cf a cotton mill chimney, 200 ft high, at Radcliffe, near Manchester. Crowds gather hourly to gaze at him, and the townspeople have decided that he is a golden eagle, who hag deserted his eyrie among the peaks of solitude in the rtebrides or the Scottish mainland. Why he has moved to the fuliginous air of iVlaucliester is not clear, but it is admitted that there are birds, as there are men, who think -Manchester as good as any other place to dve in. The bird has strange habits. When the mill hooter sounds the closing hoar in the evening he spreads vast pinions and soars until the smoke clouds swallow him. No one knows where he goes, but farmers and small holders about Radcliffe believe that there are fewer lambs and fowls in the district since the strange bird came. if the bird .is a golden eagle his visit to Radcliffe is noteworthy. The golden eagle, “the King cf Birds,’ companion of the wind and sun in airy fastnesses- is nearly 3ft high. He hag surpassing courage and power. He has been known to snatch wounded grouse under the barrels of guns. He has picked up the coursed hare as the jaws of the hounds closed on the quarry. He has carried lambs and calves, and, old Scots’ legends say, small children to his eyrie. Radcliffe is deeply interested in the golden eagle.