. Collection of United States patents granted to Thomas A. Edison, 1869-1884 . N PETERS. Photo-Lithographer. Washington, D. C 2 Sheets—Sheet 2. T, A. No. 213,554. Patented Mar. 25, N. PtTERS. Photo-Lithographer. Washington. D. C. United States Patent Office THOMAS A. EDISON, OF MENLO PARK, NEW IN AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPHS. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 213,554, dated March 85, ; application filed March 26, 1877. To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Thomas A. Edison, ofMenlo Park, in the county of Middlesex and


. Collection of United States patents granted to Thomas A. Edison, 1869-1884 . N PETERS. Photo-Lithographer. Washington, D. C 2 Sheets—Sheet 2. T, A. No. 213,554. Patented Mar. 25, N. PtTERS. Photo-Lithographer. Washington. D. C. United States Patent Office THOMAS A. EDISON, OF MENLO PARK, NEW IN AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPHS. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 213,554, dated March 85, ; application filed March 26, 1877. To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Thomas A. Edison, ofMenlo Park, in the county of Middlesex andState of New Jersey, have invented an Im-provement in Telegraphs, of which the fol-lowing is a specification: The object of this invention is to indent up-on a sheet of paper the characters receivedfrom a distant station, or the characters trans-mitted from the same station, and to use suchsheet of paper to transmit the same message,thus providing an automatic device for trans-mitting the same message more than oncefrom one station to different stations, and forretransmitting the message automaticallywhere it has to pass through several offices toreach its destination. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of


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