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Show PRINTING BY ELECTRICITY. Device Which May Set Type by Telegraph. Tel-egraph. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) When the machines for setting type were perfected it was thought that the limit of ingenuity in that direction had been reached, but a Chicago inventor claims to have improved upon it with his device for printing by electricity at long distance; in other words, by a telegraphic tel-egraphic printing machine. Many attempts at-tempts have been made along this line without success from a commercial standpoint, but this inventor has been working on ideas of his own, differing from previous efforts, and is said to have evolved a machine that not only can be, but has been, put into practical operation. In a description of the Invention pud-lished pud-lished in the Western Electrician it is stated that the system has been in daily successful experimental operation on telegraph lines in Chicagtfor some time, over a straight circuit of 820 miles long, without repeaters. The speed reached is thirty-five words a minute, but this is to be increased to fifty words by alterations in the present pres-ent device. Under this system ordinary typewriting machines are used, fitted with special appliances, in which the Morse dots and dashes constitute the sending impulses. The technical description de-scription is long and complicated. Briefly, Brief-ly, the system consists in printing telegraph tel-egraph messages sent through a standard stand-ard typewriter at one end and received on a similar instrument at the other. |