Show HOW THE ELECTRIC OPERATES A ribbon of paper is enrolled from a hollow cylinder or drum by a train of clockwork clock work and asit as it ia is unrolled h a sharp style magnetically directed indents incerti it a series of dots or lines u upon pon the paper when the style estyl la 18 thrust down only for an instant as the paper is dragged beneath a dot is impressed is ke kept pt down for or a little more than an instant iii iu stant a lengthened line or dash is left on the onward moving paper aa as a b track but how bow is is the style thus magnetically controlled it is held up by a strong spring beneath it there is a soft iron bar which becomes a ma magnet att whenever a voltaic curre current ritia is turned on from from the local battery along a coil surrounding surround I 1 ing it whenever a soft iron icon bar bec becomes omesa a magnet itis stronger than the spring and drags down the style to make its dot or dash as the case may be when it ceases to be a magnet the spring comes into play and arid lifts the style up so that the paper traverses on beneath traceless and free freet the syle is held down an instant or morti more thaila an instant accordingly asan as an instantaneous br or aa as a prolonged current is sent from the transmits sion slon coil and therefore from froin the local recording battery through the short circuit cir coit for as it has been ge been seen en the two will be in magnetic and electrical rapport although severed by the lanti cs breadth there will be only one conducting strand laid down in the atlantic but yet enough distinct signals can cat be transmitted by this one wire to accommodate all the letters of the alphabet and the several numerals when a message is sent across the atlantic the crank handle bandle of the mighty battery will be worked backward and forward making its contacts instantaneous or prolonged when the they are instantaneous dots will be formed on tiare the e paper by the recording style at the other side of the atlantic when they are protracted dashes will be traced there words will be spelt according to the way in which instantaneous and protracted contact sand therefore doth dots and dashes are caused to succeed each other th tile e trace on the paper in america will correspond to the movement of the hand band in great britain or vice versa the clerks who attend at the recording instrument become so expert in their tb air carious that they do not need to look at the printed record to know what the message under tinder reception ie is the recording lin strument ment has for them an intelligible articulate language they understand its speech they can close their eyes and listen to ahe the be strange clicking click ine ina that is going on close to the ear while the printing is in progress gressard pro aLd at once say what it all means |