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A Successful Printing Telegraph (on Murray's page-printing telegraph, 1901)
article by Maximilian Foster in World’s Work (August 1901) : 1195-1199
perforated tape driven, not yet multiplex, other than if using “Morse quadruplex system”. four photographs, including two of (presumably) Donald Murray.
printing.telegraphy  donald.murray  telegraphy 
march 2010 by asfaltics
Donald Murray, Practical Aspects of Printing Telegraphy (1911)
The Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 47 (1911) : 450-529
Builds on his “Setting Type by Telegraph” (1905); analytical and practical. good account of press messages (463-466), newspaper private wires (466-467), even “counting words in telegrams (473-477)
printing.telegraphy  telegraphy  codes  donald.murray  word.count 
march 2010 by asfaltics
Donald Murray, Setting Type by Telegraph (1905)
The Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 34 (1905): 555-608 ¶ beautiful presentation.
“The simplicity of these machines and the saving of wire cost depend on the fewness and simplicity of these signals. It is in this reduction in the number and the simplification of signals that there will be found to lie not only the fundamental distinction between the telegraph and the telephone, but also the fundamental criterion of all telegraph systems...” (557); Mr Judd in discussion, “but when the hideous code words...”; automatic typesetting by telegraph is discussed at 593, including obstacles; the President (at 607-08) remarks, “I have never seen before that the demonstrator absolutely took the instrument to pieces before the audience and put it together again — and then worked...” ¶ numerous images of "code"
printing.telegraphy  telegraphy  codes  donald.murray 
march 2010 by asfaltics
Typographical Printing-Surfaces : The Technology and Mechanism of their Production
FINALLY digitized. Lucien Alphonse Legros and John Cameron Grant their broad, deep and intelligent compendium (1916) ¶ link opens directly to appendix in which are listed British and U.S. patents, covering some non-obvious ideas (printing telegraphy, conductor's ticket stampers, &c) ¶ though light on Grant, see L. W. Wallis, “Legros and Grant: The Typographical Connection.” Journal of the Printing Historical Society 28 (1999): 5-39 —— I love this book and am fascinated by its two very different authors.
printing.history  printing.telegraphy 
september 2009 by asfaltics

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