THE TELAUTOGRAPH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2483, 9 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE TELAUTOGRAPH.

Processor Elisiia Gray, of Highland park, Illinois, by the invention of the new apparatus, to which he has given the name of the " Telautograph," has gone a long way towards displacing the telephone. 15y means of this instrument a person may sit down in his offiice, take apcncil in his hand, write a message, and as the pencil moves, a pencil in his correspondent's office will move simultaneously, and form the same letters and words in the same way. What is written in one place is instantly reproduced elsewhere. Any languages may be employed. The writer may use shortland, lie may write by 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 artist of an illustrated paper may, by means of 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 10 miles. The telautograph will supplant the telephone for many purposes, as it has marked advantages over it. It will be noiseless, less affected 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, which rings an anunciator at the exchange, or in the office of the person with whom he wishes to hold written intercourse. Then the first party takes his writing pencil, or pen, from it 3 holder, and writes his message upon a roll of paper. As lie 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 <riveno trouble, and one can write with as much facility as if they were absent. Tile telautograph is stated to work much more perfectly than the telephone.