office or home, in your handwriting, you can do so by means of the telewriter, without going out of your room. The "telewriter" is attached to the ordinary telephone wire without interference to the telephone service or complicated switchboard. You merely press a button and write and your handwriting is reproduced on a roll of paper in the home or office of the person you wish to communicate with. Messages have been passed between London and Birmingham in this way."
Well, as the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic approaches, in April, I thought I'd go over some Titanic Era trivia in this blog. I'm taking a break from Milk and Water and back at work writing Edith's Diary, the follow up to Threshold Girl - which about a college girl in the 1911/12 era, based on real letters. "Too bad about that boat accident," writes Norman Nicholson, my husband's great grandfather. "So many great men lost. But they will be replaced in time."
As the anniversary of this iconic event nears, more and more young women are downloading the ebook Threshold Girl looking to research their Titanic Era topic: TITANIC FASHION. The book contains many colourful fashion plaits from the Delineator Magazine.
This 'telewriter' invention was described in a 1910 Technical World Magazine. I don't think it ever caught on. That magazine (later to become Popular Mechanics, I believe) explained the science and technology advances of the day, in long wordy articles, and their writers were excellent, but it also listed a few 'oddball' inventions in short snippets at the end of each magazine. A very modern touch, aimed at readers who were just beginning to have to deal with the 'information overload' of the modern era.
Many of these inventions were automobile accessories. The electric headlight? Nah, it won't ever catch on.
"The two new White Star liners, Titanic and Olympia, are rapidly nearing completion. These twin ships will be the largest vessels afloat. They will each be nearly 900 feet in length and displace 60 thousand tonnes of water. At the present time the Olympia is metal plated and the Titanic in frame. The huge gantries under which these vessels are being built have for the past year been recognized as landmarks in Belfast Harbour."
