Sends 1,820 Words A Minute.

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 3, 1913:
Spanish Invention Said to Effect a Revolution in Telegraphy.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON. Jan. 2.— A Madrid dispatch to The Pall Mall Gazette gives details of a new invention which is said to revolutionize telegraphy.
    The machine, which is declared to be an improvement on the Hughes instrument, was invented and manufactured by Señor Balsera of the Spanish Telegraph Department. It is capable of sending and receiving 1,820 words a minute, three times the velocity of the Hughes machine. Señor Balsera's machine possesses a type-wheel similar to that of the Hughes apparatus, but whereas with the latter only five impressions or letters can be effected per revolution, with the former fourteen may be made with a keyboard of the same size.
    The instrument, it is stated, has been thoroughly tested by the Spanish Telegraph Department, which has ordered twenty machines.