| Show newspapers by electricity the london correspondent of the liverpool courier writes to that journal it has been hinted from time to time that one of our weal wealthy thy london condou journals has under consideration the tho practicability of printing its sheets in several of or the great towns gowns towns simultaneously in in order to secure a distribution of its ita copies as early as the various local journals which are so fast depreciating the circulation and once a param paramount bunt influence of their london co temporaries how can can this staggering feat ph shed the leading journal had its attention drawn some weeks ago to an electric machine in operation at the tho london stock exchange by which the fluctuating quotations are telegraphed to a number of city officers where an instrument composed of moveable moveably move able ablo figures and a dial plate is made to record changes from hour to hour if an electrical current can be made to manipulate moveable moveably move able fig was conceived that a system of mechanical typesetting type setting might ba be carried on simultaneously in a number of distant places the operation being direct from a central office in london the news being behig there collected from all parts of the tee world and that the copy might be put in type at several provincial offices simultaneously by operating an on an ele elc electric etrie etric keyboard key board or a dil Kil number of keyboard controlled in the central office this idea like so many other inventions is now new mr mackay pt the warrington guardian worked upon the same line 0 of f invention about eight years ago to my knowledge and simultaneous type typo typesetting by machinery was by him carried to a practical issue though he sound found that his invention did not result in lu profit he worked a number of typesetting type setting machines by operating on one keyboard and proposed to set up newspaper columns for any number of papers by this sImultaneous process the only difference being that the various machines could not be placed ia distant places in other words he be did not connect them with electricity the fact remains that he be actually worked some bome ten or twelve machines on thib this po plo of connected action which derived its directing power from one keyboard key board thee there is iio lo moral doubt that the same thing cabbe can ean be done on a wider scale by electric agency but if done dohe would the game be worth the candle I 1 know the times or rather the manager of the mechanical department is putting the thing to a private test in order lo 10 to ascertain its ita mechanical abilities ties if that can be made clear the times directors are not likely to be deterred by financial timidity from the next step in the unparalleled adventure what a world of journalistic development the prospect opens to ent nt eyes I 1 |
