Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — Professor Gray New Invention. [ARTICLE]

Professor Gray New Invention.

Professor Elisha Gray, of Highland Park, 111., has obtained letters patent, dated Julv 31, 1888, for a combination of * • . - %■’ instruments called the telautograh, consisting of a transmitter and a receiver and designed for transmitting messages by wire between distant points by the sender in his own handwriting, thus doing away with skilled operators: The invention is based on the discovery of a new principle in controlling the electjic current, whereby a pulsatory current is produced—all previous attempts to transmit handwriting having been-based on the use of a variable currenfT