Show the of his new invention the delanta graph professor eliachar gray of highland park DL said recently by my invention you can sit down in your office in chicago take a pencil in your hand write a message to me and as your pencil moves a pencil here in my laboratory moves simultaneously and forms the same letters and words in the same way what you write in chicago is instantly reproduced here in facsimile fac simile you may write in any language write in shorthand if you like use a code or cipher no matter a facsimile fac simile is produced here if you wish to draw a picture it is the same the picture is produced here the artist of your paper can by this device telegraph his picture of a railway wreck or occurrence just a a reporter telegraphs has description in words the two pencils moves synchronously and thoro is no reason why a circuit of miles cannot be worked as easily as one of ten miles the will supplant the telephone for many purposes for it will have marked advantages over it it will be noiseless less affected by induction and no misunderstanding can result when one person wishes to communicate with another by the he pushes a button which rings an in the exchange or in the office of the person with whom he wishes to conver eo then tho first party takes his writing pencil from its holder and this may be pen or pencil and writes his message upon a roll of paper As ho writes so writes the pencil at the other end of the writing your pen or pencil is attached to two small wires and these wires regulate the currents which control the pencil at the other end of the wire but these wires give you no trouble you hardly know they are there and can write with as much facility as if they were absent nor is there any doubt that it can be used commercially it will not cost more than 15 or 25 and works much more perfectly than the telephone |