Thomas Edison Automatic Telegraph

He began experimenting with ways to improve the telegraph which led to his invention of the automatic telegraph duplex telegraph and message printer.

Thomas edison automatic telegraph. His automatic telegraph allowed for an operator to tap out the message but for the receiving end to automatically record the message. Edison s first invention at 16. Patent number 128 608 of july 2 1872 provided a useful improvement to current printing telegraphs. It was about this time that thomas dedicated his life to being a full time inventor.

He submitted his article in the spring of 1878 when he was 31 and it was published in appletons 1880 edition. Thomas alva edison february 11 1847 october 18 1931 was an american inventor and businessman who has been described as america s greatest inventor. Thomas edison pictured operating a telegraph machine. While samuel morse s invention of the telegraph in the 1830s and 1840s made it.

At this point in his career edison was a respected telegraph inventor and former telegrapher. This increased the system s ability to transmit messages to as many as 1 000 words per minute. What edison created was a telegraph design that was actually based on his pen. These inventions which include the phonograph the motion picture camera and early versions of the electric.

Science history images alamy photo. The automatic telegraph which recorded messages by means of a chemical reaction engendered by the electrical transmissions proved of limited commercial success but the work advanced edison s knowledge of chemistry and laid the basis for his development of the electric pen and mimeograph both important devices in the early office machine. Thomas edison was born in 1847. Edison was partly deaf and wanted to make the telegraph easier for him to use.

It sent telegraph signals between unmanned stations allowing almost anyone to easily and precisely translate code at his own speed and convenience. Thomas edison was a telegraph operator in his youth and he worked for the bureau news wire of the associated press. In 1877 thomas a. Edison was asked to update the section on the telegraph for appleton s cyclopaedia of applied mechanics.

Edison s automatic telegraph system was used between 1872 and 1874 on the lines of the automatic telegraph company and then for another two years on the lines of atlantic and pacific telegraph company after that company gained control of automatic telegraph.