A REVOLUTION IN TELEGRAPHY.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3021, 21 October 1878, Page 2

A REVOLUTION IN TELEGRAPHY.

According tor the; Tribune, Mr Loring. | Pickeringran 'editor ~4mdii:hewiiptpW proprietor in San.Francisco, has obtained aipateat for a •'machine to telegraph a page at once. It is stated that an entire page, of a newspaper may be transmitted in from fifteen^ to^ thirty minutes, the copy delivered beuig ready for-isi»^ h>'i' printers. From the. information that has reached us the process Abased on a principle devised some years ago ; but in this case, instead of writing being transnutted,, the stereotype plate itself it utilised/ , The depressions between jfte letters and lines are filled up with a nonconducting .composition,.the plate is bent, and placed on a cylinder, capable it's revolving rapidly, and eleotrio fingers are made to trace over every part of the surface. , When,the finders traverse the non- . conducting composition the current will ; be interrupted, but it will flow, while the fingers are in contact with the'ezpoeed -" metallic surfaces.. The receiving instrument is a similar cylinder, revolving at about the same rate,,and the.ohumeterf are reproduced by the action of elebtnb" '>:. fingers on a chemioally prepared paper, or as our authority says, ordinary paper.

The Morning's Inflections.—Condoling wife(at breakfast):—"My Charles, you do <~ not eat; not indigestion, dear one P«* | Dear One (remembering what he has to .1, meet because of the evening*! whist)j—• •* Ye-es, the stakes are so heavy ajUhat confounded club." . , : -..:; ..fY\ ■. " Ma;" said a little girl, " what is all this fuss about trade marks P If it trade marks that make so many wrinUet v in pa's forehead P "