The Steno-Telegraph.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1997, 25 April 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Steno-Telegraph.

Signor Micbela, of Ivroe, baa act himself to introduce what may be called a telegraphic shorthand. In the present system of telegraphing, the average English word requires some fifteen distinct signals to send it, the average letter requiring three, and tho average word consisting of five letters. Now Signor Michela proposes to telegraph, by means of a koy-board instrument like a piano, any speeoh in any language as fnst as it can be spoken, and as it is delivered by tho speaker. His apparatus has been tried in the Italian Senate, and is said to be capable of sending 10,000 words per hour. Full details of the apparatus would require a long article to describe, but the principle of its action is to telegraph the phonetic sounds common to every language by means of signals, and not the letters, as in the present system. The operator catches these sounds in a word, and telegraphs them by pressing down the keys. At the receiving station they are represented by short horizontal lines on a moving strip of paper. Signor Michela's telegraph is a new departure in a promising direction, its only drawback being that it requires a longer time to learn than the ordinary system.

Van R\fisr:LßEnc.nK, of Belgium, has succeeded in transmitting a telegrapbio and telephonic message along the Bame wire at the same time. A trial of this has been made at the Antwerp Universal Exhibition, where concerts held in important towns in Belgium were heard, the transmission being made with ordinary instruments along ordinary telegraph Hneß and with earth returns.— Oi crlan\ Mail.

The mode of formation of the diamond is still a mystery to chemists and geologists. Sir Henry Roscoe, the well-known chemist, suggests that some light may be obtained on the subject by the study of the the ash which remains after burning diamonds.