CHAPTER XIX. 



THE TELAUTOGRAPH. 



So far we have described several methods of 

 electrical communication at a distance, in- 

 cluding the reading of letters and symbols at 

 sight (as by the dial-telegraph and the Morse 

 code embossed on a strip of paper) ; printed 

 messages and mes-ages received by means of 

 arbitrary sounds and culminating in the most 

 wonderful of all, the electrical transmission of 

 articulate >pecch. 



None of these systems, however, are able to 

 trim-mil a message that completely identifies 

 :ider without confirmation in the form of 

 an autograph letter by mail. 



In 1 s *!).'} there was exhibited in the electrical 

 building at tin- World's Fair an instrument 

 invented by the \vriter called the Telauto- 

 graph. A< the word implies, it is a system by 

 which a man's own handwriting may be trans- 

 mitted to a di-tancc through a wire and re- 

 ;<-od in facsimile at the receiving-end. 

 Tin- in-tniMn -nt h. '-n described in 



th<- public print< that \ve will not attempt to 

 do it h,-re. foi th reason that it would be im- 

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