| Show I 1 INVENTION HERALDS NEW ERA ER IN TELEGRAPHY IN I Is s r fr x 1 4 c I z if c V t i 4 df 1 4 t f i ii 1 i 4 Ac 4 4 i I i j I 4 t i 5 re j 9 PATRICK B DELANEY Operating his automatic system of rapid telegraphy that will be used by the New York Oct 26 Over Oyer a circuit of miles of ot wire installed In a Madison square office building any anyone one Interest Interested ed can now no watch the coming and re receiving receiving of telegrams at the rate of 1000 words a minute This tells in a sen sentence sentence sentence tence what is actually being done by bythe bythe II the Delany system of automatic rapid telegraph It has already been bought I outright by b the company compan formed to operate a national telegraph system in competition with the West Western est estern ern em Union and the Postal Scientific papers describe the Delany i system with a wealth of ot technical terms that baffle battle the compre comprehension comprehension comprehension hension The sum of these descriptions descrIptions seems to be that the inventor has I overcome the static force stored in inthe inthe the telegraph wire which has hereto heretofore heretofore heretofore I fore largely nullified all attempts at automatic telegraphy tele and has put this force to work for him The mechanism is simple enough or at least not complicated In outward appearance There Is a perforating machine with punches magnetically operated on a tape These punches make the records which are then ready to be fed through the transmitter to the wire The dou double double double ble row of ot holes in the tape passing through the transmitters contact fin fingers fingers fingers gers result in positive and negative im impulses impulses pulses puli es which on the receiving tape are recorded in the form of dots and dashes The current passing through the chemically c prepared tape from an iron electrode to a platinum electrode forms torms clear blue blu marks that anyone who knows the Morse alphabet can read and transcribe In the fewest possible words this is the system that it has taken Patrick B Delany twenty years to evolve When hen Thomas A Edison dropped telegraphy Mr Ir Delany who was an associate of Edison took it up Some odd patents have since been granted to him His first invention to attract world worldwide worldwide worldwide wide attention wa was the synchronous multiplex system of oC telegraphy telegraph bought by the British government in 1885 and I largely larget used on the English postal lines ever since All six of the first class circuits of ot this system can be worked In opposite or the same direction direction tion The next time Mr Delany Deany came into popular fame though the tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph world has always followed his work closely was when he succeeded In Inthe Inthe inthe the supposedly impossible feat oC send sending sendIng ing in a cable message from Newfound Newfoundland lana land to England with an ordinary Morse key But all the while he was keeping the patent office busy on his inventions Inventions inventions Delany Deany was hard at work on the automatic system of telegraphy telegraphs adapted to commercial purposes which has now been perfected to such a point that it forms torms the essential basis of ot an entirely new telegraph system for the whole United States Just now Delany Delan Is experimenting with wireless telegraphy at Nantucket where he has an establishment con constructed constructed constructed on a large scale Coming to America in 1854 1851 as a boy of 9 first occupation was In a telegraph te graph of office office fice flee and before he got through with this branch of the business was chief operator at Philadelphia and assistant superintendent of the Southern At Atlantic Atlantic Atlantie lantic lantie Telegraph company Since those days inventive activities have occupied most of his time What hat the Delany system will do to toward toward toward ward reducing telegraph rates rat s is shown in the announcement of he the the company that it will carry words for 25 cents without regard to distance On sent by wire but delivered at destination by b mall mail the rate is 25 cents for fifty OCt words The possibility of giving such a ser service service service vice is due to the fact that using De Delans lanys lans Invention one wire will wiil carry as qs much business as s operated used duplex or used simplex To duplicate duplicate duplicate cate the capacity of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York to Chicago trunk lines estimated by Its engineers to cost oot would Involve a telegraph company in an out outlay outlay I lay of o Sections of this main line wilt ill soon be In operation and the field will be rapidly expand expanded ed eil by use of Independent telephone lines Efforts already adr reported to buy buyout out I or merge the new company co have been blocked by giving S S E McClure of Mc Ic Magazine Supreme s preme reme Court Jus Justice Justice tice John W Goff Golf and President H B Critchfield Critchfiel l of the Milwaukee ee Independent ent era Telephone company the majority representation on a board of trustees each of or whom has absolute power to veto the sale to rival interests interest |
