New Wonders of Telegraphy.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 139, 9 July 1872, Page 7

New Wonders of Telegraphy.

There are rumours abroad, says the B >sfon Admirer, of a coming revolution in the telegraph business. It is reported that a new system of transmitting news will soon be put into operation between New York and Washington, the operation of which will make a'l present systems seem insufferably slow and superfluous. Telegraph machines will be distributed to individuals, who by a little practice will acquire the ability to stamp their messages on a slip of perforated paper in the telegraph cipher. This when taken to the general office will be forwarded to its destination, and then by another machine printed before delivery to the person for whom it is intended. The whole time of the writing, transmissi m, and printing of a message of one hundred words will be but one minute and twenty-seven seconds, and messages of that length are to be forwarded for twenty cents. The capacity of a telegraph wire in the present system is said to be about 6000 words in ten hours, but by the new process it is claimed 40,000 words an hour can be transmitted on one wire without, confusion. One printing machine can transcribe mes-

sages at the rate of 3000 words an hour. All the working expenses of the new system are represented to be much less than those of the old one. The cost of a machine for inditing messages will bo but two or three dollars, so that any merchant, bank, or newspaper office can have one for its own business, and one operator can do as much business with one wire as a hundred operators with a hundred wires now do. The public will rejoice with reason if the practicability of such an improvement of communication shall be established.