TELEGRAMS BY TYPEWRITER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 271, 16 April 1914, Page 6

TELEGRAMS BY TYPEWRITER.

THE Ml'lUlAY MULTIPLEX. A NEW ZEALANDER'-i INVENTION. The Hon. I!, it. Uhodes. PostmasterGeneral, referred recently to the Murray multiplex telegraphic system, which the Government, intends to use on the New Zealand lines, and which is expected to expedite the Telegraph Department's business very considerably. Mr. Donald Murray, the inventor of the system, is n New Zealandcr, and was for

.'some vears a journalist in Auckland, on . the staff of the New Zealand Herald. , He, had a bent for mechanics and the science of electricity, and while on the . Herald lie invented 'a system of sending ; telegraphic messages! by typewriter i which formed the basis of his present i patent. He went to Sydney, and thence : to London, and there he has pushed this i invention, besides others connected i chiefly with electrical work.

The following account of Mr. Murray's patent projector and transmitter is from the London Daily Chronicle of February 13 last: "In a few years we will be our own telegraphists. Entering a local post office, we will pay a small fee, click out a message on a kind of typewriter and it will arrive almost simultaneously at its destination a. finished printed message ready for delivery. This simple process will be even more, miraculous. The message, by clever automatic devices, will, if necessary, be registered at more than one destination by the mere depression of the keys of your typewriter. That is, a message from Lonmm to Paris will, be retransmitted without the aid. of operators to all the capitals of Europe. America. Africa, Asia and Australasia, Experiments on these lines have lately been conducted between •London and Manchester. They di'i'er from all other systems which are in vogue for the rapid transmission of messages, although tl'.c inventor of the apparatus, Mr. Donald Murray, acknowledges that he has drawn from and improved them. The Western I'liion Cable Company have bought the American rights flf his machines, and have already begun to instill them in the big cities of the, United States, while the G.P.0., London, are experimenting with

a similar object. " 'ln the Baudot multiplex system,' said Mr. Jim-ray to a Daily Chronicle representative, -operators send messages by means of five keys, much like Morse keys. At tlio receiving end of the line the messages are printed on a paper tape, the speed of each transmission being thirty words a minute. I have raised the speed to forty and fifty words a minute, and provided also automatic ! machines that; print tlio messages in page form at. the receiving station. "'I have added an important new feature—a <rc-perforatoi' at the receiving ; station, by means of which messages I sent over the wire are, re-perforated i automatically, and this perforated t«pc. . can be used to re-transmit the message ; (o another city. This saves time and ; labour, and reduces the risk of errors which rc-traiisinission entails to-day. i "'Some olistacles stand in the wav of the Murray Multiplex for ocean cables ■ and wireless at present, but in tlio course ', of the next twenty years it- is safe to 1 say that all the great cities of the world witf be linked, so that a message once 1 typed in one of them will go through to ' any other or all without human inter--1 rention except for the transfer of the j automatically perforated tape from the receiving mechanism of one circuit to [ the transmitting mechanism of another. ■i "Mr. Murray is a New Zea'lander by birth, and has been on the fi.l'.O. en-gineering-staff. He is the owner of : many automatic) patents, but his latest invention will cause a revolution as great as the linotype machine created in , printing. ; ."'Any person who can use a typewriter,' he continued 'will he able to '.send messages on my instruments. Twelvo messages jean be sent simultaneously on one wire, or 150 messages lan hour, by a highly skilled typist.'" SWEARS BY IT.

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