New Telegraph Wonder.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2954, 28 November 1900, Page 3

New Telegraph Wonder.

A THOUSAND WORDS A MINUTE. Much interest was caused during the early months of this year by the fast telegraphing apparatus invented by two Hungarian scientists, Herren Poliak and Virag, By means of this system it had been found possible to telegraph 2600 words per minute in Morse characters over long wiieE The inventors now report a most extraordinary development, which will cause intense interest amoiigi telegraph experts. Their first system involved the use of a telephone membrane, of which the vibiations were recorded on sensitised paper by means of a small mirror which reflected a ray of light through a lens. Whilst experimenting with tnis appaiulus it was found that the violations could be so coniioiied that letcould be written in Latin characters intelligible to the untrained eye. Ihe letters it was possible to produce, however, v,ere only those widen were imined of up and down or forward strokes of the pen such as in, n, w, etc. This led to expert’ meins winch aimed at producing the other letters. The means were at lemTh dEcovered. °

By using two telephone membranes, which are botu attached to the same mirror, and whose movements can be combined and conl!,!Un V a + t ie ,Seilchng eiul ’ Jl:,s b een found 1 ossible to imitate all the motions of the In dm U i " f nte , mesS!lge:s in i! dear round band m Latin characters at the extraordinaiy speed ot 1000 words a minute. The senriD T Wntten 0n an er *d ] ess slip of ThE .if P f er S6Ven ceutim elres in width, is Lvp of , ULf l««e S downwards and w develo T ed “d fixed by an automatic Process, so that it leaves the apparatus quite ready to be gummed to a fmm aid issued to a receiver. The fastest printing telegraph at present employed is the Bau dot, winch will send 4000 words per hour ° Ve '' ’ Vlle ' The new invention will send 60,000 words per hour over two wires, so that it is Six times faster than the fastest system yet in use. In England, the duplexed Hugues yields 1800 words per hour 6 faS . fc W 1 ! eatstone apparatus yields 24,000 words, winch are, however, in the Morse code, and require translation The new system, therefore, bids fair to take its place at the head of the high-speed telegraph systems of the world.

The messages are sent by means of a specially perforated slip bearing live series of perforations, which can be prepared very rapidly, one impression being all that is necessary for perforating the combination of holes necessary for each letter. At the receiving end) the operator watches the writing on the sensitised paper through a ruby glass window. The United Electrical Company of Budapest are financing the inventioa.