TELEPRINTER SYSTEM
EXCHANGE FOR LONDON 1000 LINES # LONDON, March 3. An entirely new type of telephone exchange -tho teleprinter, by which a statement typed on a machine in tile ordinary way is printed on a tape many miles away—is being coustrirtod in secrecy in the basement ot tho Central Telegraph Office, London. 11. i s hoped to have the teleprinter exchange Imished before the end of this year. .. .
At the most the exchange will have ICCO lines, and it will be used principally by large hanks, shipping linns, brokers, and bookmakers.
At present teleprinters can be used only by large linns who have their own private wires. After one or two hoars' training the average stenographer will be aide lo e.se, tho teleprinter, which is in many respects similar to the typewriter, having the same standard keyboard. To use the teleprinter the operator will dial on Ids telephone the number lie requires in the ordinary way. and will then 'be able to type bis message without further delay', the identical words which'are typed being received on Ibe tape at the receiver's teleprinler. Tl. is also possible for the sender's message lo be recorded simultaneously throighouf the 'ountrv at any number of stations to which be is connected.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17438, 9 April 1931, Page 7
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207TELEPRINTER SYSTEM Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17438, 9 April 1931, Page 7
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