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The telautograph was writing again, obedient to Kennedy's signal that he was satisfied with the signature. "... in consideration of Craig Kennedy's agreement to destroy even this record, agree to give him such information as he has asked for, after which no further demands are to be made and the facts as already publicly recorded are to stand." "Just witness it," asked Kennedy of us.
Professor Elisha Gray's sensational invention the telautograph in active operation, attracted many spectators. It is a very ingenious contrivance, of which I have given a detailed description in my pamphlet on electricity recently published in Cincinnati, O., by the Burgheim Publishing Co.
An officer of the trust company will notify you of its receipt immediately, which will close the entire transaction as far as I am concerned." Kennedy could not wait. He had already seized his own telephone and was calling a number. "They have it," he announced a moment later, scrawling the information on the transmitter of the telautograph. A moment it was still, then it wrote again.
He has never been idle, and they all possessed practical merit. For many years before he was known as the wizard of the telautograph, he was foremost in the ranks of physicists and electricians. He is not a discoverer of great principles, but is professionally skillful and accomplished, and eminently practical. His every effort is exerted to avoid intricacy and clumsiness in machinery.
A Quaker carpenter who studied five years at Oberlin College, he took up electrical invention, and brought out many ingenious devices in rapid succession in the telegraphic field, including the now universal needle annunciator for hotels, etc., the useful telautograph, automatic self-adjusting relays, private-line printers leading up to his famous "harmonic" system.
The conspirators seemed dazed. "And now," continued Kennedy, "I see that the pencil of the receiving instrument is writing again. Let us see what it is." We bent over. The writing started: "County of New York. In the name of the People of the State of New York " Kennedy did not wait for us to finish reading. He tore the writing from the telautograph and waved it over his head. "It is a warrant.
From 1873-5 he was engaged in perfecting his 'Electro-harmonic telegraph. His speaking telegraph was likewise the outcome of these researches. The 'Telautograph, or telegraph which writes the messages as a fac-simile of the sender's penmanship by an ingenious application of intermittent currents, is the latest of his more important works. Mr. Gray is a member of the firm of Messrs.
Shouts from the bellboys who sought to catch the rats who scampered hither and thither in frightened abandon mingled with the shrieks of the ladies. Kennedy had succeeded in finding the alcove of the floor clerk in charge of the fifth floor. There on his desk was an instrument having a stylus on the end of two arms, connected to a system of magnets. It was a telautograph.
In the telautograph the varying currents are caused not by the diaphragm influenced by the voice, but by a pencil moved by the hand. To show how these movements may be caused let us imagine a case that may occur in nature. It is an interesting mechanical study. There is an upright rush or reed growing in the middle of a running stream.
It is an essential part of the mechanism of the telautograph, and the movement is known among mechanicians as "compounding a point." Gray, while using the principles involved in compounding a point, seems to have discarded the ways of transmitting magnetic impulses of varying strength commonly in use.
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