The Telephone Superseded.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2929, 20 June 1888, Page 3

The Telephone Superseded.

Professor Elislia Gray, of Highland Park, Illinois, by the invention of the new apparatus, to which lie lias given a name of the telautograph, has gone a long way towards displacing the telephone. By means of this instrument a person may sit down in his office, take a pencil in liis hand, write a message, and as the pencil moves, a pencil in his correspondent's oilico will move simultaneously and form the

same letters and words in the same ffljpy, What is written in one placo is instantly reproduced elsewhere. Any language may be employed. The writer may use shorthand, lie may write with code or in cypher; it does not matter, a facsimile is reproduced If a picture is to be " wired" it is the same,a perfect copy appears at the other end of the wire. The artists of an illustrated paper may, by means o( the telautograph, transmit his picture of a railway smash or any other event just as easily and as rapidly as a reporter telegraphs his description in words. The two pencils move synchronously, and it is stated to be just as easy to work a circuit of 500 miles as one of ten miles, The telautograph will supplant the telephone for many purposes, as it has marked advantages over it, It will be noiseless, less allected by induction, and no misunderstanding can result. The mode of working the telautograph is as follows When one person wishes to communicate with another

by the telautograph, he pushes a button

rings an nnnuoiatoi' at the extpdiange, or in the office of the person with wliou he wishes to hold written intercourse, Then the Cist party takes liia writing pencil, or pen from its holder, and writes his message upon a roll of paper, As he writes, so writes the pencil at the other end of the wire. In writing, the pencil or pen is attached to two small wires, and these wires regulate the currents which control the pencil at the other end of the wire, But these wires «ive no trouble, and one can write with as much facility as if they were absent, The telautograph is stated to work much more perfectly than the telephone.