TELEGRAPHING HANDWRITING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2371, 18 June 1892, Page 3

TELEGRAPHING HANDWRITING.

The following is from the London letter of The Liverpool Mercury : —Electrical miracle is, if I am correctly informed, likely to have a new addition to the list in the course of tliq fuw months. Many effqrts have been made to telegraph handwriting. The thing l}as actually been done in ai} imperfect way. The writer has been able occasionally to reproduce his " fist " at some distance by the communication of a telegraph-wire. But now a much more delicate instrument is said to be on the eve of being patented at Washington. You write a letter and it is "„t once reproduced at any distance. The current which carries the message does not take any longer—sq I hav,e be<#i told —than is qccupieq in th,o transmission of one word by the Morse system. You may tako a whole page of the Times, and it will be reproduced at tlje. cither- o,ud. The vibraj'iqns, q£ the human v-oieo have already oeen convoyed. The new invention registers the vibration of light. It is ao perfect that a cheque may be, save in respect of color, reproduced a hundred miles away in such a fashion that tbo authenticity qf the signature might be, recognised by a bank clerk. Tl'o thing sounds incredible, bnt it is not nearly so incredible as were the stories of the telephone before Dr Graham Bell came to England with an invention which,

is now alternately the convenience and tho plague of business men. Of course, details are wanting as to the methods employed. The patent is not yet secure. But one may be almost certain that before the contury is out it will be as possible to transmit at least a short sentence m facsimile as it is now to speak under the Straits of Dovor between London and Paris.