The printing telegraph was invented by Royal Earl House in 1846. House's telegraph could transmit around 40 instantly readable words per minute, but was difficult to manufacture in bulk.

In London in 1854 David Edward Hughes invented the first perfected mechanism for printing telegraph messages, using a keyboard in which each key caused the corresponding letter to be printed at a …

Probably the most technologically impressive of the early telegraphs were the printing telegraphs of Hughes, House, and others. These machines shared one advantage with the ABC telegraph – no …

krum Company developed a printing telegraph which will operate on the standard five-unit code; but which is so simple that it can be efficiently used at a station which handles as low as SO messages a …

ade many of the breakthroughs. Baudot's printing telegraph was the first to use a typewriterlike keyboard, and it allowed eight m chines to share a single wire. More importantly, Baudot's m chines …

The receiver of Hughes' telegraph contained a printing wheel which rotated in synchronism with the 'character wheel' at the transmitter. Characters were signalled by a single pulse, whose timing made …

In 1855, David Edward Hughes, a music teacher living in Kentucky, invented his own version of the printing telegraph. Like the House Printing Telegraph, Hughes invention used a keyboard to enter the …

Text and two illustrations from page 118 of the 1853 volume The Electro Magnetic Telegraph detailing the printing telegraph system invented by Royal Earl House (1814-1895) in 1846.

Hughes also worked as a practical experimenter, coming up with the printing telegraph in 1855. He moved back to London in 1857 to sell his invention, and worked on the transmission of sound over …

The printing telegraph was invented by Royal Earl House in 1846. House's telegraph could transmit around 40 instantly readable words per minute, but was difficult to manufacture in bulk. The printer …