"Telegraphe automatique ecrivant" (DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMATIC PRINTING TELEGRAPH ), in Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences.

WHEATSTONE, Charles.

Published by Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1859

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WHEATSTONE, Charles. "Telegraphe automatique ecrivant" (DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMATIC PRINTING TELEGRAPH ), in Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences. 24 January 1859, volume 48 number 4. The Wheatstone occupies pp 214-220 (with one small illustration of the printed-upon paper scroll) in the issue of pp 201-246. This issue is complete, extracted from a larger bound volume, and offered with the original wrappers. The issue is crisp and clean, and the wrappers are very fresh, if detached. VG copy. [\] The opening paragraphs, translated: "I have the honour to submit to the Academy a new Automatic Printing Telegraph, which, I believe, possesses advantages which have hitherto been unattained. With the instrument at present on the table 500 letters per minute have been printed. The perforated bands of paper, which determine the order and succession of the electric currents by a means analogous to the mechanism of a Jacquard loom, are prepared in such manner that the groups of points constituting the different letters are distinctly separated, so as to render any mistake arising from the coalescence of adjacent letters, which now frequently happens, impossible; and effective ink-marks are impressed on paper without adding in the least to the weight, or causing any resist­ance to the moving parts of the electro-magnets."--translation by History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications, online, reprinting an 1859 effort. [\] Offered with commentary by Werner Siemens, "Remarques sur le telegraphe automatoique ecrivant de M. Wheatstone" in the Comptes Rendus. 7 March 1859, vol 48 number 10, pp 468-9 in the issue of pp 453-483. This issue is complete, extracted from a larger bound volume, and offered with the original wrappers. The issue is crisp and clean, and the wrappers are very fresh, if detached. VG copy.

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• Title: "Telegraphe automatique ecrivant" (DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMATIC PRINTING TELEGRAPH ), in Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences.
• Publisher: Gauthier-Villars, Paris
• Publication Date: 1859
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
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