XII 



THE MARVELLOUS TELEPRINTER 



BOY SCOUTS and Girl Guides will know 

 the Morse key upon which messages may 

 be tapped out. For sixty years or so it has 

 been the principal method of sending tele- 

 grams in the Post Office, now it is doomed. 

 Something better has come along the 

 teleprinter. To look at, the teleprinter is 

 exactly like a typewriter, indeed, it is a 

 typewriter but something more, because 

 the message typed upon its keys is coming 

 out in typewritten characters, perhaps 300 

 miles away. 



The old Morse sounder, which has been 

 the standard instrument for most telegraph 

 offices, is capable of a speed of about 30 

 words a minute; the teleprinter can manage 

 60. 



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