. Operation of trains and station work; . cause a person unless he or she be able to read ordi-narily rapid work is unable to be a good judge of sendingtherefore will not be able to correct their own sendingas it should be until after receiving be The custom of timing for the purpose of finding therate of speed attained should be seldom indulged in ex-cept under the careful direction of his or her instructor,as it is apt to cause the student to become careless in theformation of characters. Place the two first fingers on the farthest side of thekey-button with the thumb under the edg
. Operation of trains and station work; . cause a person unless he or she be able to read ordi-narily rapid work is unable to be a good judge of sendingtherefore will not be able to correct their own sendingas it should be until after receiving be The custom of timing for the purpose of finding therate of speed attained should be seldom indulged in ex-cept under the careful direction of his or her instructor,as it is apt to cause the student to become careless in theformation of characters. Place the two first fingers on the farthest side of thekey-button with the thumb under the edge; curve thefirst and second fingers so as to form a quarter section of IO TELEGRAPHY a circle; partially close the third and fourth but notenough to cramp them; never allow them to touch thetable. Rest the arm on the table at the elbow; let thegrasp upon the key-button be firm but not rigid; whilesending never allow the fingers or thumb to leave thekey or the elbow to leave the table. Learn to handle thekey as easily as you would a POSITION OF riAND AND MOVEMENT. Fig. I MOVEMENT. The motion should be directly up and down; avoidingall side pressure; it should be made principally at thewrist although the fingers and hand should be perfectlylimber; the fingers, hand and arm should move uniformlyin the same direction. Tapping upon the key should be carefully avoided andnever try to write with the finger movement alone; thefingers are used merely as a leverage and to hold the key-button. The downward movement produces the dots anddashes while the upward movement the breaks andspaces. A dot ( . ) is made by a single instantaneous TELEGRAPHY n downward stroke of the key, while a dash ( — ) is madeby holding the key down as long as it would take to makethree dots; a long dash as in the letter L or the numeralcipher o should be made by holding the key down as longas it would take to make five and six dots respectively. The space is produced by the upward movement of thekey and
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