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The Tr O U Ble S O F a Gi R L Whose Divided Between THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1901 31 Telegrc^pt^ #1T Musical Notes Substituted for Dots and Dashes in the Patented Invention of the Reverend Joseph Murgas, a Pennsylvania Priest I *^a BtmW^t fc.. w k / "3v->. •^^S^JB«itf3J,-''^ l \u25a0 *,'i*,JX BBBr^jßßa^Bgßßwt^BßßWy^: ;i«aß^wBw^Mßil': *'\u25a0 vjwtv ii jT"\0, RE, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do" w-V^mmmrnm^trf •^^^MmVr^^fmY^ '" * i* n ißm& v?< -"^?%^Vmu3bbY Jrft -mTTmw&fr '* '•ff^mm . § Jr Real music is soon to be heard over the telegraph wires —• balls and onto a highly insulated aerial wire It reaches or, rather, over the "wireless" wires* It will the top of a fifty-foot pole, and from there Is projected mean something more than a sentiment, too Into the air a sound wave. "The waves follow each other with great rapidity, but Wor instance, a curious little tune will spell the tones never become confused when the Instruments are ruin to a cotton broker; another willcarry a properly adjusted. "At the receiving station the sound wave travels from message of love to a waiting sweetheart from the top of a pole down a. wire to the reoelver, where It a swain. is caught by a sound wave detector and communicated to fervent a diaphragm.The vibration of this diaphragm produoea tb* lDots and dashes will,have run their race if same musical note transmitted from the sender and a a battery magnifies it, and it is produced for the- ear of th« the system of telegraphy invented by Cath- operator by an FATHE7K. MURGAS AND HIS MUSICAL TELEGRAPH ordinary telephone receiver." olicpriest and patented at Washington on the MACHINE Father MUrgas followed this exposition with a tech- nical description of each portion of the instruments and Oth May is only a as as system of telegraphy invented by the Rev. In a word, instead of the cumbersome dot and .second and every one indicates messages of fraction successful a tetter, explained how they were operated, illustrating by dia- Father Joseph Murgas, of Wilkesbarre, dif- experts in telegraphy expect it to be. THE dash and interval of the Morse code, the Rev. Father which now take ten minutes may be sent and re- grams and by the instruments themselves. fers principally He is all eagerness from the Marconi system Murgas ceived in one minute. The difference in speed, how- and enthusiasm and he is happy, has invented a method by which varying not in the code. It is what Father Murgas terms the ever, has not been thoroughly tested. Father Murgas over the revolution his invention may cause In teleg- tones will express letters of the alphabet. These raphy or the fortune it will probably make for him, REV. FATHER JOSEPH MURGAS Is the pro- shorthand of telegraphy. In it musical notes to are modestly says that his code is probably from five but because he is now able to demonstrate that the prin- . duct of a number of the most famous universities tones, clear, musical, pure and absolutely accurate, substituted for the dots and dashes so familiar in ten times as fast as the Morse code. ciples he conceived are correct. THEIn Europe, a member of the Societe de Electro- technique top the old code invented by Morse, and never until now are received through an ordinary telephone receiver, of Vienna, set 'ipon the of a hill In A company to exploit the invention is already SYSTEM WHICH Wilkesbarre, improved REMARKABLE catering openly to tbe religious wants of his upon. and as each tone may be given in a fraction of a formed. 11 PRESENTS IMMENSE POSSIBILITIES devoted parishioners and secretly to the scientific wanta of a world ever demanding Improvements. pATHER MURGAS has arranged with the company of a new church, the present one being tdo drags For parishioners small for the With these the work was slow at first. Indeed, Is just that. It expresses the dots and dashes by different which is to put his invention upon the market for in* his he has erected a church, parish growth of hia flock. ago proceed rapidly accurately. payment house and cemetery; for the world he has built a new sys- not until two years could he with any degree tones sent and The Instrument is of a considerable sum as an earnest. He was In a little room on the second floor of hia residence tem telegraphy promises of rapidity. Even now many things needed for the perfeor regulated so that there oannot be more than a shade of asked what he purposed doing with the money. of which to work wonders. Murgas Father has made a workshop, which is to-day difference the "Oh," Facts about great inventors, colored by time, modified tion of the invention are lacking, though In the main all between tones. he said, "I do not know. There are two things crowded with apparatus, with cells, induction coils, bat- "Now," he exclaimed, having thrust the point home, I shall do with it. I by distance, never seem bo remarkable as at first hand. are there. At present he carefully explains only what he shall aid in establishing a sisters' teries, jars and tubes and wires and a hundred and one only represent That is why the work done by Father Murgas is remark- had patented. "so far I have used the two tones to the school for teaching the children of the parish, and then I other things he has used in his long series of experiments. dash, a most elab- able. From desk heaped high with papers plans he dot and th© but it is simple matter to shall use the rest in getting more apparatus in aid Of Overhead, in the attio, Is larger appAatus, a and the a net- orate any kind of alphabet from them, one tone being used further experiments." Glance at his history. He was born In Hungary thirty- work drew the diagram of the apparatus for sending and re- of wires, great copper balls, big batteries and all represent letter the alphabet. A series of tones nine years ago, the son of a farmer. was ceiving messages, all the chief parts being, patented under to each of He smiled when asked if he had any more Invention* He early des- the Impedimenta of a man who has constructed much and will thus represent ordinary words. Indeed, it will be easy "Yes, several," tined for religious orders and scientific pursuits, and in the date of May 10, 1904. In view. there are he admitted, "but they taken the best of what he has made to weld together a by repre- the study theology to Institute a code which just one sound could are chiefly developments of my musical wireless telegraph of and electricity he did so well that remarkable creation. He is a smooth-faced, wide-headed man, with keen sent an entire phrase. system. practical aft Is, capable very early in life he earned a name for himself In the eyes. It is it but It is of being "In other words, my system is the shorthand of teleg- priesthood and among the soientlflo men of Europe. A FIVE YEARS' STRUGGLE TO "I cannot talk much English, except electrical Eng- made much more so. I shall work for the company which n raphy," he cried, "the idea expressing exactly what he my Educated at Budapest, Tresburg and Vienna, he completed ATTAIN HIS PRESENT SUCCESS lish," he explained, and he started into a clear exposition. takes patents. I shall make them better." wished to convey. shrugged his education at the famous university in Munich, taking "It is apparent, is it not," he asked, "that the present He his shoulders, as if it were a question of IN THAT little workroom he spent many hours of dis- Importance, honors. Every minute of the time that he could get dur- system of transmitting messages by the Morse alphabet is little when asked the distance his message appointment and fewer hours of the joy CONFUSION OF TONES IF INSTRU- ing years he devoted to eleotriolty and to the «x- that comes formed of dots and dashes and intervals? More time is may be sent. "Across the ocean," he said, and, thought- from suocess. At first the work was hard enough NO MENTS ARE PROPERLY ADJUSTED fully, --periments of which he became so fond. to dis- required in sending a dash than a dot—so —," he "It will need a much elevated sending station and courage a leas able or a less energetic • . Eight years ago man. He had little — A SI SAID, I have as yet used but the two tonea to \u25a0more power, that is all. It can go as far as Marconi*s and he was sent to this country in orders money. illustrated with his pencil. "Now It is not so that if th© it With his salary and pay for the scientific •**\u25a0 assigned Wilkesbarre, articles were express the dot and dash, and I will Illustrate how farther. The number of sound waves is indefinite; there Is and to Pa., where a number of he writes his same dots and dashes and intervals all translated Income does not exceed $2000 a year. Out of tones transmitted saying Slavonic Catholics were without a pastor. It speaks into sounds which do not require bo much time the they are sent. I make the by impulses no where it will slop; It is growing bigger all the that he has given nearly half to his inventions.
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