Show Types Typesetting Machines Operated by Telegraph for First Time Time- By HOWARD bLAKES BLAKESLEE Associated Press Prel Science Editor ROCHESTER N N. Y Dec 6 AP APA APA A A telegraph wire wife operated two newspaper ie t typesetting machines here today at t the plant of the Rochester Roch Rods ester ster Times Union Dispatches ches by wire vero ero transferred transferred transferred trans trans- mechanically directly into the machines with human touch eliminated eliminated and were were recorded in lines of metal type each as long as a news column is wide The object of ot the invention is to shorten the time and Work required to transfer news from the pla pia place e where it occurs to tho printed page pase page It II t is designed to be another step in development of the distribution of the printed word which began when I movable type was invented by Johannes Gutenberg at Strasburg in 1438 PRIVATE DEMONSTRATION Today's operation was a a. 1 private ri 0 demonstration held in the presence of ot a gathering of men who direct large printing and publishing en en- en They were the guests of Frank E. E Gannett publisher of the Gannett newspapers who by his backing sponsored the invention Walter alter W. W V. V Morey of ot East Oran Orange N. N J J. invented the machine known as a teletype setter and the the- Mork- Mork rum corporation of oC Chicago built it I The sending was done in the demonstration room to two machines machines machines machines' ma ma- chines chines' on tho opposite side of oC the room which were operated simultaneously simultaneously simul simul- from the same wire One was a and the other an in- in Th The Tho short sending wire was made equivalent to a a. distance of miles by resistance coils colls The sender punched a tape seven seven- eighths of oC an inch wide which op operated operated operated op- op the telegraph wire by sending sending sending send send- ing impulses corresponding to the holes Jn In the tape At the receiving end an instrument a little larger than a a. typewriter produced a punched tape exactly similar to the thes s sending tape This receiving tape then ran automatically through a small ele electrical machine on a a. stand beside the t typesetting machine The little machine once more translated translated trans trans- the tape holes into electrical Impulses HOW IT WORKS The electric waves were carried Sy Dy Y a wire wife to an apparatus roughly resembling a large human hand fastened to the side of the typesetting typesetting typesetting typeset typeset- ting machine Each metal finger controlled a number of ot letters and characters of the typesetting machine machine machine ma ma- chine which it released according to the the- impulse r rt received and when it gave the release signal the typeset- typeset typesetting typesetting ting Ing machine functioned functioned- exactly as asif asit it if f a human operator had pressed down the key for a letter or char char- acter The teletype setter is a development development development develop develop- ment of ot automatic telegraph printers print print- ers differing principally in but one respect that it uses a tape with six punch units Instead of the standard five Ive units milts The extra unit is re required required required re- re to cover all characters of a typesetting machine which outnumber outnumber outnumber ber those thos of automatic printers The sponsors predict special value for for or the teletype setter setler in transmitting transmitting transmit- transmit ting Ing market quotations directly into type and an opportunity for book publishers to save cave the expense of ot keeping large stores of metal tn type plates Instead of metal plates the tape ape may be filed tiled ready for rerun when reprints are desired STOPS AUTOMATICALLY One sending can operate an indefinite in indefinite in- in definite number of typesetting m machines ma machines ma- ma chines either in th the same room or cities far fac apart A receiving receding printer print print- er eris Is provided that without interfering interfering interfering ing with the automatic typesetting enables an editor to read what Is coming over the wire The teletype setter stops automatically the mOment moment moment mo mO- ment anything stops the typesetting machine it feeds Neal Dow Baker pr president of the corporation of ot New York a 1 guest said The teletype setter Is a device of extraordinary ingenuity which appears appears appears ap ap- pears destined to effect a substantial substantial substantial modification of the composing methods of ot daily newspapers Its practicability is not t 16 to bo be seriously questioned The possibility of t operating typesetting typesetting type type- setting machines by ladio radio was discussed dis- dis cussed hu iu thi tho th- of ot the machine said t that feature is still in the tho experimental stages Mr Morey th the inventor of ot the came caine up up from the compositors compositor's c case se lIe He was born in Green River N. N Y Yo in 1882 When 20 years ears old he spent his nights learning how to operate a a. typesetting machine During the past 25 years he has worked at vanous va va- rious' rious Jobs in the printing business He began working on on th the plans for the several years jears I ag ago |