On this day in 1893 Elisha Gray was granted the patent for TELAUTOGRAPH. U.S. Patent No. 491,347.
This invention relates to a writing telegraph of that class in which the act of writing the message at the sending station operates to reproduce it at the receiving station, and it is in the main an improvement upon the apparatus and organization described in a former patents, particularly Nos. 461,470 and 161,472.
One of the objects of this present invention is to simplify and improve the mechanism described in said patents for giving movement to, and reversing the movement of, the receiving pen.
Another object of this present invention is to improve and simplify the paper feeding mechanism, providing improved means for giving a positive feed to the paper strip at the feeding station.
