Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1879 — Another Wonder of the Age. [ARTICLE]

Another Wonder of the Age.

A British engineer, Mr. E. A. Cowper, has invented a real telegraph—the first, indeed, considering the etymology of the word, that has ever been made. It is a genuine writer-from-far-off. "We have for years communicated from far off, but to write actually and autographically beyond the point of one’s pen has heretofore been impossible. A description of the details of the process is impossible without diagrams. The result is enough. You write on a board on which is an endless piece of paper rolled off by clockwork, and your writing, reproduced identically in shades and shape, appears on similar paper at whatever place yon are writing to. At present the operation is moderately delicate. One cannot write very hastily. But a sac-simile is given in the .Engineering of a message taken forty miles off, which shows the complete success of the process, and nothing but h little attention to details is needed to bring the thing into common use.