CREED TELEPRINTER

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 214, 31 July 1939, Page 4

CREED TELEPRINTER

AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPHY 90 MACHINES IN U Sii Thirty post- offices in New Zealand are now equipped with the Creed teleprinter. and 90 of these modern instruments for the quick handling of telegrams are being used. The intrcduction ol this system has brought to many of the smaller centres the advantages of high-speed! telegraphy. It has replaced the Alorse key, and has increased the rate of transmission to almost treble that of the Aiioise, while the ratio of error has been reduced. The Creed teleprinter is a British instrument embodving some modiiica--1 ieng suggested by New Zealand telegraph men to suit the requirements of Dominion conditions. Both sending and receiving are automatic and simultaneous transmission in both di:celions is possible. Typed in Ordinary Way The message is typed in the ordinary way on a standard keyboard, iu:t instead of printed characters,* tins machine produces at the sending end groups of perforated holes in a narrow paper tape, which, when run through an automatic transmitter, sends different combinations of electrical impulses 10 the receiving station. where the receiving machine prints the message in Roman characters. In the receiving machine numerals ami the letters of tin- alphabet, as well as other characters used in writing, are grouped around! a cylinder anil the impulses from the sending machine swing this cylinder instantly to a printing point, when a lever presses the type-face upon the paper tape, and prints the various characters. It is then only necessary to gum the .tape on the received message form and deliver it to the recipient. After considerable experience of the new sxstem. it has been found that interruptions due to mechanical faults., in this clove; ly designed instrument are extremely rare. .