Type-Writing by Telegraph

Abstract

ONE of the most interesting papers read during the last session of the Institution of Electrical Engineers was that by Mr. Donald Murray on setting type by telegraph. Strictly speaking, the title of the paper is something of a misnomer, as the apparatus described by Mr. Murray was constructed for type-writing rather than type-setting; but as the principle is equally applicable to the latter process, it is unnecessary to be too critical. This is specially the case as the instruments and method were originally de-signed for the automatic telegraphic operation of linotype machines, and it was only because commercial considerations indicated the greater importance of the solution of the problem of telegraphic type-writing that attention was more particularly devoted to this question.