NEO-TELEGRAPHY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10119, 22 August 1900, Page 2

NEO-TELEGRAPHY.

A MARVELLOUS INVENTION.

I havo registered from time lo time iv the Daily News (writes- the Vienna correspondent of that paper) the different stages of the marvellous -invention of M-.M. Polak 4 and Virag, by which words may be telegraphed at' an almosb incredible rate per second over long distances. The experiments in September between Budapest and Berlin proved that telegrams could be sent and received without a hitch at the rate of 220 words in ten seconds, being 1320 words in a -minute, and nearly - 80,000 words in an ionr. Jl single - wire is therefore, »ble''to;~ transmit 1,900,000 worda in 24 Hours," and the eight wires between Budapest and Vienna, which are sufficient for the demand , upon them ,at present, would transmit 15 million words in 24 hours. The inventors have since been t» the v United States with their apparatus, and i tried it with success over the longest - 1 distances in fine Weather and foul. On - thejr return they_ set about Improving >• their machine -still further, and about . six weeks ago were able, to -att-"-nounco tbat telegrams: could now b 9.” received at the speed mentioned ok?"' "tape," which _ passes automatically^: th"'ii)<;li the developing fluid, and oph^ft^ 1 ; [ ont ready for tho cle'rk,:who trawH^"-.", the ineas3go from the Morse alplijbet^ ' into ordinary writing. HiSf-"-".' I But this is little .compared witßSrbat"' ' X learned to-day. I am infonne3*,'that th s marvellous apparatus has now been" . made to write the messages in a clear, '■ bold hand on th& "sensitive "paper. i There is no more Morse alphabet, no moro translating and copying. As the message arrives, sr/ it can be delivered. Tlu< inventors explained the manner in wh eh this astonishing result is brought about in the following words:— "We innupiico the mirror at the sending-off Malion in such a "manner by suitable vibrations of the current that it uses tlio n.y of light which falls upon it as if it were a pen, -and- draws signs with it just as if it were a' human hand writing on the sensitive paper at tho other end of iho wire." A sample of such a message which I havo received shows that th» ray of light never interrupts {he tinea it draws, but separates tho words by a lung lint. The characters are upright and very clear, similar to a good school book copy. There aro no dote on the i. The velocity of tho apparatus has not suffered from this additional invention, and the minimum of words sent is still 50,000 per hour. The messages are still conducted into the apparatus by means of perforated brmds,,-because it would bu quito impossible to send off 15 words in a second otherwise than automatically. The perforations are, however, I very different from those used, for ihe Morao alphabet. But the new system can be tised together Kith apparatus like those of Hughe? and Baudot," the difference being that more than 30 Hughes machines can work at one wire, at the Bame time if the Polak-Virag system is applied.