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In the News (Sun 20 Dec 09)

  
  Telautograph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Danner became acquainted with the operation of a telautograph machine, on which a message written by the bureau is immediately transcribed by the electric...
Its invention is attributed to Elisha Gray who is said to have invented the telautograph in 1888.
The telautograph became a very popular device for the transmission of signatures over great distances and the device became popular in banks and in large hospitals in order to ensure that doctors orders and patient information was transmitted quickly and accurately throughout the hospital administration.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/t/te/telautograph.html   (416 words)

  
 The Dead media Project:Working Notes:44.7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Telautograph continued with variations of its units which could actually send messages on the telehone lines, but that application never really took off.
The installed base of Telautograph units eventually dwindled to nothing, but if you were to talk to an old time Head of Housekeeping in major hotels, you would get a nostalgic sigh expressing a yearning for the units' superiority to the computer....
Telautograph's history in the facsmile market is another fascinating bit of history....
www.deadmedia.org /notes/44/447.html   (388 words)

  
 margins : telautography
The telautograph is a system by which messages written in longhand at one station may be reproduced simultaneously at one or more other stations without material loss of any of the original characteristics...
The transmitter consists of a stylus which is mechanically connected, through two sets of levers and appropriate swivel joints, to the contact arms of two variable rheostats in such a way that the horizontal and vertical components of the stylus movement are translated into corresponding current variations in two lines connecting the receiver.
One way proposed several years ago was by making the sending arm or a brush connected with it travel over a series of contacts by which a less or greater resistance was introduced into the circuit connecting the stations, the receiving arm being thus caused to move over a greater or less course.
www.jmcvey.net /cable/elements/telautograph1.htm   (2655 words)

  
 Early Office Museum Communications Equipment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Gray National Telautograph Co. was founded in 1888, and its products based on Gray's patent were introduced to the market in 1893.
The first commercial units were installed at the American Bank Note Co. The telautograph was refined during 1893 and 1900, and the improvement designed in 1900 was marketed for several decades.
Apparently early telautographs did not work well for transmission over long distances and as a result were used primarily within metropolitan areas.
www.netangola.com /EarlyOfficeMuseum/communications_equipment.htm   (3061 words)

  
 The Dead media Project:Working Notes:05.5
The writing was received on a moving paper tape, and since there was no pen-lifting mechanism on the receiver, all of the individual letters were joined by a continuous line on the tape.
A typical application was in the old Dearborn Street railroad station in Chicago where a telautograph in the main concourse kept baggage and mail handlers informed of train movements.
Special military models of the telautograph were designed to enhance ruggedness and reliability.
www.deadmedia.org /notes/5/055.html   (782 words)

  
 Telautograph by Hugo Gernsback from Ralph 124c 41 +
Telautograph by Hugo Gernsback from Ralph 124c 41 +
Ralph then attached the Telautograph to his Telephot while the girl did the same.
The telautograph machine itself was invented by Elisha Gray in 1888 and was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=652   (431 words)

  
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In the years following Telautograph, the NLRB retreated from its bright line rule that an employer could suspend bargaining based on the filing of a decertification petition.
Although Dresser involved the same circumstances as Telautograph, the NLRB held in Dresser that an employer could not withdraw from bargaining while awaiting resolution of a decertification proceeding.
The NLRB maintains that Dresser is more effective than Telautograph as a means of preserving the stability and continuity of the bargaining relationship.
vls.law.vill.edu /locator/3d/Sept1994/94a0834p.txt   (3325 words)

  
 Gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The "Telautograph," or telegraph which writes the messages as a facsimile of the sender's penmanship by an ingenious application of intermittent currents, is the latest of Gray's more important works.
The Gray National Telautograph Company originated in 1888 when the company bought the patent for the first Telautograph (today known as facsimile) instrument from Omnifax founding father, Professor Elisha Gray.
Grays's Telautograph was the first facsimile that wrote on stationary paper.
chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/gray_elisha.html   (2864 words)

  
 A look at 'Telautograph'.
If you wish to search for the term telautograph, a visit to the Connected Earth website is recommended.
The presentation is a uniquely multi-media one, where you can switch between straightforward descriptions, more detailed exploration, images of exhibits in 3D, spoken or written material from people who used to work in the telecommunications industry, movie sequences, and interactive animations or simple explanations of how technology works.
As well as searching for information that specifically answers your questions, you may decide to explore one of the nine galleries.
www.connected-earth.com /content/telautograph_online.html   (282 words)

  
 Remote chalkboard automatic cursor - Patent 4317956
A telautograph system allows a user at one location to write on a special surface, such as a chalkboard, and have the image appear at remote screens.
Presently, a user wishing to call attention to an entry already written on the board must make a new line or must circle the item to which the remote viewer's attention is to be drawn.
While telautograph systems serve their intended purpose, a practical problem remains to be overcome.
www.freepatentsonline.com /4317956.html   (5485 words)

  
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In Telautograph the employer and the union had a contractual relationship for many years, and their last contract covered the period November 3, 1969, through November 2, 1970.
To compel the Employer to furnish the information under the circumstances of this case seems totally inconsistent with the underlying principles in Telautograph, supra; Shea Chemical Corp., 121 NLRB 1027 (1958); and Midwest Piping Co., 63 NLRB 1060 (1945).
Therefore it is my conclusion that the Respondent has not violated Section 8(a)(5) of the Act as alleged in the complaint, and I shall recommend that the complaint be dismissed in its entirety.7 CONCLUSIONS OF LAW 1.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/273/273-1511.txt   (2747 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The present writer has experimented with the Ameribyothers.html Telautograph, and, so far as the experiments went, nothing could be more satisfactory.
No knowledge of telegraphy whatever is required from the operator: he simply inscribes his message with a style on a piece of tissue-paper, and it reappears simultaneously at the other end of the wire.
Acquaintance with the Telautograph led him to take the subject up again in 1893 and 1894, and he still hopes to find the electric force a match for vis inertiae.
juteux.net /rory/wbm14.html   (1059 words)

  
 IndustryPlayer - Entrepreneur Game - License Info Fax Machines (ELECTRONICS)
To ensure that both needles scanned at exactly the same rate, two extremely accurate clocks were used to trigger a pendulum which, in turn, was linked to gears and pulleys that controlled the needles.
The Gray National Telautograph Company originated in 1888 when the company bought the patent for the first Telautograph instrument from Omnifax founding father, Professor Elisha Gray.
Grays's Telautograph was the first facsimile that wrote on stationery paper.
script.industryplayer.com /licenceinfo.php?licid=014400   (2391 words)

  
 Chapter 3: Structure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Old hoist shafts were closed, new shafts were cut through mass concrete, space was created for the new hoist mechanism in the magazine, and a heavy concrete roof called a splinterproof was built over the top of the replacement hoist.
At about the same time, special booths (to house a distance writing instrument called a telautograph) were built to the rear of many emplacements, and extensions were added to some loading platforms.
The tall telautograph booth, the free-standing truck recesses, the small platform extension at emplacement one, the battery commander’s station, and the Taylor-Raymond hoist positions with their thick concrete covers, all indicate improvements to the battery to keep it modern and useful.
www.nps.gov /goga/history/seaforts/chapter3/chap3a.htm   (2242 words)

  
 The Firebug Page 6
It is the telautograph - the long-distance writer.
In this new form it can be introduced into the drawer of a desk for the use of any one who may wish to make inquiries, say, of clerks without the knowledge of a caller.
He tore the writing from the telautograph and waved it over his head.
www.web-books.com /classics/Stories/Reeve/ReeveC4P6.htm   (995 words)

  
 telautograph - definition, meaning, explanations, informations, synonym and antonym for telautograph from OXID Free ...
telautograph - definition, meaning, explanations, informations, synonym and antonym for telautograph from OXID Free Online English Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Telautograph : A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits.
In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves.
dictionary.oxid.ro /Definition/Telautograph/index.html   (102 words)

  
 The Future of the News -- In 1895   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The reporter will send both description and picture by telautography and the reporter of the future is going to draw as well as to write.
The editor, whether in his office or temporarily reading at a distant point, will telautograph his orders and ideas, and by an improvement now being perfected, he will receive telautographic proofs in return.
Writers on newspapers will become users of a machine in process of construction by which the present typewriter keyboard will not only set their ideas into print, but will also instantaneously put them into type, eliminating the machine typesetter as the machine itself has eliminated the hand-compositor, and as the steam press eliminated the hand-press.
kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu /future/_future/00000041.htm   (243 words)

  
 Telautograph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Art of Telegraphy, issued July 1888 (first telautograph patent)
Art of and Apparatus for Telautographic Communication, issued October 1891 (improved speed and accuracy)
This page was last modified 03:50, 13 September 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telautograph   (489 words)

  
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Despite the court’s eventual awarding of the telephone patent to Bell, it is estimated that Gray earned over $5 million during his lifetime on his own patents.
His most successful invention was the “telautograph,” a predecessor to the modern fax machine.
Gray’s telautograph company became the Telautograph Corporation, which is now part of the Xerox Corporation.
freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~glenntunneycolumn/column309.htm   (1458 words)

  
 Elisha Gray Biography | World of Invention
In 1888 and 1891 Gray patented his TelAutograph, which electrically transmitted handwriting or pictures, using a wide band of paper with a recording pen that moved as if hand-held.
Gray demonstrated the TelAutograph at the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893.
From 1880 until his death, Gray was professor of dynamic electricity at Oberlin.
www.bookrags.com /biography/elisha-gray-woi   (415 words)

  
 Barista » Blog Archive » foggy learning
No - an analogue version called the telautograph was invented in 1887, and was still going strong until the electronic fax, mostly in hospitals and law offices.
An early advocate of the telautograph in the British Library has this wonderful description of a foggy day in the Reading Room:
All this nuisance has been abolished by the electric light, which not only renders the Reading Room available for the public on dark days, but allows the ordinary work of the Museum to be carried on in all departments; the same may be said of all other libraries.
barista.media2.org /?p=288   (410 words)

  
 Damn Interesting » The Fax Machines of the 1800s
This machine won the attention and praise of Emperor Napoleon III himself, who witnessed a demonstration of an early prototype of the device in 1860.
Several other designs appeared in subsequent years, including Elisha Gray's Telautograph in 1888, which instantly reproduced any stylus movement at the receiving station onto a stationary sheet of paper.
The Telautograph was used by banks and hospitals to allow patrons to sign forms from remote locations.
www.damninteresting.com /?p=40   (756 words)

  
 Communications Equipment
The Gray National Telautograph Co. was still operating in 1905.
86) In the 1940s, Telautograph marketed an improved model under the Telescriber name.
According to an 1889 report, Malone Wheless invented a telegraphone that recorded telephone messages, but we have found no evidence that this device was manufactured commercially.
www.officemuseum.com /communications_equipment.htm   (3750 words)

  
 Gordie Little: Italy has given America a number of great men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Much has now been written to revive the memory of Meucci and to give him credit for his amazing accomplishments, but there is a strong faction that is not ready to diminish the claims by supporters of Alexander Graham Bell.
Then there was a man named Elisha Gray who reportedly invented the Telautograph in 1888.
In case you never heard of either Gray or his Telautograph, it was some kind of electrical device which could reproduce writing over a distance.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2005/02_2005/02272005gl.htm   (883 words)

  
 Unotchit in the News
Margaret Atwood has fans on five continents; those book signing tours must be exhausting.
I wonder if Margaret Atwood knows that she has fully realized not just her own dream, but Hugo Gernsback's as well.
Read more about this story at Booker winner's robot brainwave may spell the end of the book tour; see the device video at the Unotchit website.
www.unotchit.com /technovelgy-feb1906.html   (361 words)

  
 Colorado Investment Company double signed by Elisha Gray (Gray invented the Telephone and the Telautograph ) - 1885
This historic document was printed by the W. Badeau, New York and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an Eagle with a Union Shield.
In the 1880s Gray worked on developing the "telautograph", a device that could remotely transmit handwriting through telegraph systems (The first fax machine).
If you are publishing a book for educational purposes or with the press, please contact us directly at 703-787-3552 for use of our content.
www.scripophily.net /coincodosiby.html   (966 words)

  
 LongPen By Unotchit: Margaret Atwood's Telautograph For Book Signing: Science Fiction in the News
LongPen By Unotchit: Margaret Atwood's Telautograph For Book Signing: Science Fiction in the News
In his 1911 classic Ralph 124c 41 +, he writes about a telautograph with a video connection (the Telephot):
You might be surprised to know that the idea of sending a signature by wire to a remote location was actually realized in the 19th century; click to read more about pantelegraph and Gray's telautograph.
www.technovelgy.com /ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=556   (498 words)

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