The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . Fig 5. A VIEW OF TYPEARMS. B TYPE MAGNIFIED. 28 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. a tape. This tape is then put on the Synchronous Wheel, and awheel at the other end of the line reproduces the tape. TheSynchronous Wheel operates on the principle of Gallys auto-matic wind music, the perforated paper serving as a guide forthe eight styluses that pass over the ribbon. The reproduction. Pit?. 6. TRANSMITTING THE DISPATCH. of the message at the other end is automatic, and depends onthe speed at
The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . Fig 5. A VIEW OF TYPEARMS. B TYPE MAGNIFIED. 28 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. a tape. This tape is then put on the Synchronous Wheel, and awheel at the other end of the line reproduces the tape. TheSynchronous Wheel operates on the principle of Gallys auto-matic wind music, the perforated paper serving as a guide forthe eight styluses that pass over the ribbon. The reproduction. Pit?. 6. TRANSMITTING THE DISPATCH. of the message at the other end is automatic, and depends onthe speed at which the wheels are run. Five hundred wordshave been transmitted in a minute. Is the Morse key still in use ? Yes. At the operating rooms of the great Exchanges, the po-litical conventions, race-tracks, ball games, and outdoor sportsgenerally, the Morse process is usually seen, although the re-ceivers now-a-days use a type writer wherever convenient, andthus issue the message in a more legible form. Various ciphercodes for shortening phrases are of course in use. Most Boardof Trade and Stock Exchange firms, also, use their own ciphercodes in sending and receiving dispatches. The Morse Telegraphin 1897, as for fifty years before, was an essential element ofcommercial and financial operations. How swiftly does Electricity act in the best mediums? It is said that it will act through 700,000 miles of thebest copper wire in one second. The usual speed is statedto be 192,000 miles a
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