The Telegraphone at the Franklin Institute (1909)
1 2013-12-13T18:03:12-08:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339 249 5 Charles K. Fankhauser, “The Telegraphone,” Journal of the Franklin Institute (1909), 37 plain 2013-12-27T04:55:41-08:00 Jentery Sayers becbfb529bffcfafdfad6920ed57b30ccdca5339This page has paths:
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- 1 2013-10-14T12:03:12-07:00 The Human Stenographer 5 The limits of human stenographers are highlighted in the August 1913 issue of the Independent plain 2013-12-19T18:44:13-08:00 In an August 1913 issue of the Independent, the limits of human stenographers working in similar situations are actually highlighted: “The advantages of [the telegraphone] for international conventions is [sic] obvious. It is very hard to get stenographers competent to take down the discussions in four or more languages. The Copenhagen congress was in session forty hours altogether and occupied two adjoining rooms, but all of the papers and discussions were duly recorded on the 250 kilometers of piano wire” (“The Telegraphone”). (This note comments on the page titled, "Imagining Applications," as well as the attached image titled, "The Telegraphone at the Franklin Institute (1908).")
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A working model of the telegraphone was presented to attendees of the talk
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After the talk, a demonstration of the telegraphone (both the wire-based and disk-based versions) was given. Fankhauser was an official agent of the American Telegraphone Company.(This note comments on the page titled, "Imagining Applications," as well as the attached image titled, "The Telegraphone at the Franklin Institute (1908).")
- 1 2013-10-14T11:46:59-07:00 A Variety of Conjectures 4 Fankhauser conjectures about the future of the telegraph, the telephone, and commercial stenography in light of the telegraphone's emergence plain 2013-12-19T18:42:29-08:00 On the limits of the telegraph, Fankhauser (1909, 41) claims: “Already the telegraph . . . is on the wane; but its complete substitution has heretofore been impossible because of the fact that it is absolutely necessary on important divisions that there should be evidence.” On the limits of the telephone: “It has always been a drawback to the general use of the telephone, that the messages transmitted have been wholly evanescent, that it has been impossible to preserve or present an authentic record of conversation over the wire” (40). On the rise of mechanical or commercial stenography: “The field here is growing constantly, as it has been demonstrated that there may be effected not alone an enormous saving in actual money, but in time, and accuracy, that is, with the aid of the talk-machine, the correspondent can dictate from two to three times as many letters as he can through the medium of the stenographer” (43). (This note comments on the page titled, "Imagining Applications," as well as the attached image titled, "The Telegraphone at the Franklin Institute (1908).")
