The Telelectroscope.

Manawatu Herald, 30 June 1898, Page 2

The Telelectroscope.

The Humanitarian publiahei a portrait of Her lan Stczepanik; the inventor of the instrument called the teleleckroscope, the patent rights of which have been purchased by the directors of the Paris Exhibition of 1900 for the sum of £240,000. He is under 30 years of age, began life as a village school master, but abandoned teaching for science, and after patenting many valuable in» vention?, has made one of the most astounding discoveries of the oentury. Apart from the fact that it enables one to eeo, at a distance of hundreds of miles, objects in their natural colors, so that you can witness a theatrical or operatic performance, at the same time that you are listen*

ing to it by means of the electro* phone, it promises to revolutionise telegraphy. Instead of transmitting a long message or despatch, it can be photographed in its entirety, and sent immediately ready for the printer. According to the statement made by Herr Szczepanik's London agent, "if he wished it to appear in print within a few hours' time in an Edinborough paper, each page as he wrote it could be photo graphed at once straight into the compositors' room, and set up while he was writing the second page." In fact, if all that is claimed for this invention be true, anything printed in London, and inserted in the apparatus, can Jbe reproduced by photography the next moment in New York, Capetown or Melbourne ; so that, in such a case, " the telegraph will be to the telelectroscope what the rushlight is to the electric lamp."