WRITING BY TELEPHONE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9351, 21 January 1909, Page 6

WRITING BY TELEPHONE.

POST OFFICE LICENSE FOR A NE\y INVENTION. By the aid of an electrical attachment called the telewriter, which ' can be fitted to any telephone ,\one can draw a sketch or write a letter which is instantaneously reproduced a hundred or more miles away. A license has been obtained from the British Postmaster-General per- ' mit ting the Telewriter Syndicate to instal 11 tela writing’ 5 offices throughout England, and telegrams can be sent by the instruments'direct to post offices. It will thus be possible ' to go into a telephone call-box fitted with a telewriter, ring up the nearest post office, and write the telegram on the pad, when the wire will be received Word for word at the post office and despatched there in the usual^way. The telewriter is a simple-looking attachment, consisting chiefly of a \ pad for writing, a roll of paper, and an electric pencil. The pencil is taken from its support, and with it any drawing, or diagram can be made while conversing on the telephone. An automatic'pen at the other end of the wire is released mechanically from the support, and immediately moves over the paper in a manner corresponding exactly with that of the person drawing. So faithfully is the reproduction that it is practically impossible to dis- x tingnish the “telephoned” writing \ from the original. , The convenience of the telewriter is obvious. When ordering some article by telephone which requires description a little sketch can be drawn and discussed over the telephone, while for Stock Exchange business, telephoning figures, and so forth, the message is sent in black and white, and the sender has his original copy also for reference. Telewriters have already been tried experimentally in some of the large London cosiness bouses, and haye proved satisfactory, but the results have not before been published.