XVIII 



THE MARVELLOUS TELE-WRITER 



THERE are many wonderful instruments 

 at work in London's great telegraph office 

 at St. Martin's-le-Grand, but the most 

 remarkable to the visitor at any rate is 

 the tele-writer, because it seems almost 

 human. 



There is nothing much to see until the 

 machine begins to work, and then it is most 

 uncanny. A pen is held against a block of 

 paper and suddenly it begins to move and 

 letter after letter is written in a flowing 

 hand. More remarkable still is the wonder- 

 ful way in which the pen, having reached 

 the end of a line, begins another but first 

 takes a dip in a small inkpot. 



This curious instrument is reproducing 

 in the big Telegraph Office in London the 

 message which is being written by a city 



