| Show nv BY LIGHTNING part na in by fire 1 ay and ul A all 1 clial M I 1 from tho the memphis appeal tio average number of electrical irn im ir jursca discs it tikes takes to lo mako make a letter is four pour ticks licks or strokes of the ba merit go to the representation of an alphabetical phabe 1 ical charac character tar even with will this flow 1 aai and nd clumsy way of transmitting the wiro wire vill ill tend news en as 1 fast fas speech as a good writer can note it down upon manifold paper to makovec eualo mako dec gon city thus instantly out the of men inan huD dreda and even thousands of miles away over sandy wastes loftland loft lofty yand tand barren mountain ranges and through the iho dark depths of the ocean was a and marvelous marve loaa triumph of intellect over matter no ho philo philosopher opher ho however ever regarded that as aa the ultimate ultima to result of human effort in that direction the possibility of the future atura we would uld la be considered madness to the ople of tho the past not only in telegraphing grap ki ing but in printing tho the walter press is off ol rolls Trolla of paper at the rate of ten or twelve miles per lour print ing cuttin cutting counting and folding tho the sheets ant le livering them at the other side ida thin than tny any can count wo shall ace rolls of paper thus ru run n off and printed by telegraph if wo we aro are inc lucky it y enough to live another q quarter barter of a awn century tury what has long been desired and anxiously anai basly sought has hag at last ufa been found that is a U punting telegraph of easy practical operation it will print by telegraph four times ats fast as tho estem can transmit messages message the tha new instrument when adapted to four lines of wire wife can tako take tho the presidents message and deliver it printed cited in san francisco in half ball an hour I 1 the invention belon q to captain Li lindsey Lia dacy odsey ol of jackson ilia operating model upon which tho the patent was wa issued is now in the patent office at washington what think of a system of keys ar ranged in horizontal lines before the operators much in the same stylo style that the keys of a piano are arc arranged before thel the player layer each ley key representing a letter upon flinch the expert plays producing not sweet sounds but pointel printed sheets three thousand miles avay captain lindsey lias has succeeded in producing a revolution in telegraphy ills ilia invention makes every printer at oneo once the most expert of operators his flis system of keys may lie be arranged after the mode of a printers casai case in chich the letters aro are arranged according to their importance those most commonly used being win more convenient to tho the hand of the artist araut and those least used being more remote the invention in fact admits admit of the production of a part of a printers case the types not being liable to run out and th the 0 operator neler having to complain of want of sorts I 1 ono character of each kind befog sufficient to last an age the operator can calo touch those characters as aa last as lio he may and a corresponding im is made upon tho the rapidly uncoiling slips of paper at tho the other end odthe jine A rapid printer can distribute nearly a column of type in an he hour consequently he could operate iper ile on the now new instrument that fast and oven airm faster fur with will tho the telegraphic instrument lie ila would havo have no 4 I 1 to deal with will and lei cay few OLI other cr war mark k it will be quite I plain lain to every p 1 inter and newspaper man that ahe n the alphabet Is arranged in the order named and has haa merely to be touched to make it a mark at the iho other end ol of ile incline line there can barlly be bc a limit to the quantity of matter which m may be transmitted rind and the rapidity will be determined by the expertness of the operator when the li received there will be no difficulty for it comes automatically ati cally forth on a printed slip blip which u uncoils itself from a roller and when cut into lengths and pasted across a page ling c ol of paper will read the th cPr printing inting telegraph is a great success we can a send cud twenty thousand words per hour h our printed on slips the coil coal of hank blank paper upon which the characters chara clors are arc 13 is arranged ill in tuch such a manner that lint it il wil 11 uncoil just as fist fast as aj ala impressions pro inanc by the let letter tene this wonderful instrument was ivas betted between balb Ja lb and new orleans orleane a circuit having been es eg at be latter place the wes q saro a ge was ras sent from jaclin jael Jac lii tennessee and astler passing mew oilcan was waa i instantly 0 received back right by the bid ide o ol 01 the ho operator with wilh the utmost faction several gentled leI en standi blandine by tho the thoughts of tbt tb operator from the printed which was rapidly unrolled before their eyes as quickly as 13 if ho he hid had spoken in their car and this g after the iho words word shad had passel oner oer eight hundred milea of varied territory oer towns rivers bril cal swa wp lakes through woods alif and a dozen ol of offices past paa quiet on oa the railroad circled through tho densely peopled ci city ty of new orleans and back again to the very spot where the intelligent midi inteli I 1 impulse was given to the electricity r and faith faithfully delivered the be on the other of cf table in ia printed fillets similar to tho the dhove who can say what may not lio be done next by this thia agent of man |
