Sujet
MacMahon's Telegraphic News Type-Printing Apparatus, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
MacMahon's Telegraphic News Type-Printing Apparatus, 1881. The '...successful operation [of the type-printing telegraph] in this country is due to the enterprise of Mr. F. Macmahon...the British public appear now to be awakening to the necessity for a more prompt dissemination of important news than is possible by hand distribution...The apparatus consists of a type wheel, or, where the characters are very numerous, of two wheels,...either of which may be brought into action and printed from, by being first slid laterally into position over the paper and then rotated, until the required letter is over the paper, which is moved upwards, and receives the impression in the usual way...The assassination of the late Emperor of Russia was made known to customers of Macmahon's Telegraph Company in London, on the Sunday afternoon when that shocking event took place, before it was communicated to the Court and to her Majesty's Government. It is obvious that [this machine], emitting its strip of printed paper, by automatic action, before the reader's eyes, will usually deliver its intelligence half an hour or an hour sooner than it can be made known by the ordinary electric telegraph, whose messages have to be written out and sent in manuscript'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A43_403
Model release
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Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
6,4Mo (503,0Ko) / 10,6cm x 15,2cm / 1250 x 1796 (300dpi)