F.T.PCTRIC PRINTING TF.LEGRAPH.
On Thursday we witnessed some experiments in the use of what is called the Universal Electric Printing Telegraph, at the office of the pa- tentee' No. 5 Ludgate Hill. The machinery is at present on a very small scale, but it is said that the invention is capable of application as extensive as that of the ordinary process. It may give some general idea of the invention to say, that the operator sets at work a magnetic regula- tor, which, reacting with a greatly augmented amount of power, im- presses on a strip of paper which is drawn out simultaneously by a spe- cies of clockwork against a wheel covered with carbonated paper, the re- quired ciphers of a short-hand system, which are thence transcribed into the ordinary character. A fourfold advantage is said to attend this pro- cess! it requires only one operator, and one wire, instead of two the message is recorded more rapidly, inasmuch as, in the same space oitime that the printing requires, the motion of the,needle in the ordinary me- thod is so exceedingly rapid as not to be traceable with, accuracy ; it saves the necessity of repeats in the conveyance of intelligence to out- lying stations at a considerable distance; and it insures the preservation of a permanent record of the message, for future reference if required.
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