Type-setting by Wire

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 19, 22 November 1929, Page 26

Type-setting by Wire

An Important. Invention -ee RECENT American invention is the "tele-typesetter,". a machine which enables a single typist to operate thousands of linotype and intertype machines .in distant cities. Speed has long been recognised as an important factor in the ‘art of printing, , and as the demand for the printed } page’ increased, history shows a con-" stant effort to decrease the time of the mechanical processes involved. The recent invention of the _ teletypsetter has done much to attain this desired result, and, as an additional advantage, one operator is able to control type-setting machines all over the world. An electric typewriter at the central news dispensing’ office perforates the tape, each group .of perforations corresponding to a letter, numeral. or symbol. The tape is led through the transmitting distributor and a series of dots corresponding to the holes in the tape are then sent over the wire in the same manner as code messages are transmitted. ~h At the receiver is a perforator J which punches holes in a tape in exact duplication of those made in the transmitting tape, while an automatic printer types the message as it is being received. The perforated tape thus received is then passed through a device, which, by means of electrical impulses, translates the code into depressions on the keys of the type-setting machines. The almost, unlimited application of this time and labour-saving invention in all fields of printing and new.:dispatching services is apparent. Wxperiments are now being carried out to perfect a similar apparatus which may be operated by radio. With the recent adaptation of radio-transmitted pictures ‘to the newspaper industry, it would be quite reasonuble to ).edict that the time is not far distant when every newspaper in the world, no matter how remote, will have its 7) "radio-typesetter" and its picture re* ceiver for the instuntaneous reception from other countries of both current news and pictures of topical events. *