MODERN ELECTRICS A Long-Distance Writer By Our Bertin Corresronpent, ‘The writer has had the good fortune to witness some interesting tests with Mr, Gustav Grzanna’s new hhreiber” (long-distance writer.) inventor, a young German from -Steglitz, exhibited his apparatus “Zoo-Hall” in Berlin. The new ‘i has also been tested by the German postal authorities, d extraordinary results were obtained smitting handwriting, sketches, ., by wire from Berlin to Dresden, a nce of 150 miles. telegraph or telephone line and the re- sulting current variations are recorded in the receiver. The problem was to transform these variations into writing, and it is here where Mr. Grzanna has shown his genius. One end of the line i sensitive electro-magnet. If little cu- Tent is sent out from the sender, the re- ceiving electro-magnet is magnetized lit- tle; if much current is cut in, the electro- magnet is energized more, etc. A little mirror fastened on an iron foil is hung up in front of the pole of the electro- magnet; this mirror moves around its horizontal axis and will move more or less, according to how much or how little current is sent out from the sender. aoe A beam of light from a small 4-volt tantalum lamp, concentrated through a lens, is directed upon the mirror and is reflected in such a manner that it traces connected to a line, long or short, all depend- h the ¢lectro-magnet is ener- at the sender