Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — The Typewriter on the Battlefield. [ARTICLE]

The Typewriter on the Battlefield.

Military authorities appear to be exhausting every re ourco tha will add to the lapidityof communi<ation letween the field of battle and the commanding officer. For a longtime the telegraph was mainly relied on for the instant transmis ion of intelligence, and then the telephone was brought into active use. It has been recently seriously proposed that aids-de-camp and other carriers of infoimition in t me of war sh mid be tiught shorthand, in order to write down important communications with all possible speed, and the late t move in this direction is the introduction of the typewriter on the scene of military operations. One of the novel features of a recent military tournament in England was the use of the typewriter < n the battle ie Id for the purpoe of recording messages Iro n signalers. It is stated that the typewriter operator was also an expe t eyelist and had his Remington m ounted on the handles of his machine. Riding in and out among the horses and gun carriages, which he did wituout the slightest mishap, whenever he-came to a standstill ho instantly braced up the cycle by a handy c ntrivance, and pounded away at the typewriter while in the saddle. The ne-sage. when competed, was sent to the commanding officer in the rear by m ans of a trained dog.