If you mean a telex machine, it has a keyboard like a typewriter and also has a printer. That is why it is also known as a "teleprinter". If you know someone you want to send …a message to has a similar telex machine, you can set up a call to their "telex service number", just like a telephone call but with no speech. Then you can type in your message and the the telex machine at the other end of the line will print it out. telex The international telegraphic message-transfer service consisting of a network of teleprinters. Subscribers to a telex service can exchange textual communications and data directly with one another. Telex systems originated in Europe in the early 1930s and were widely used for several decades. The ability to conduct high-speed digital communication over regular telephone lines led to a decline in the use of telex, but it is still used as a data transmission service for applications in which high transmission speeds are not necessary or in areas where more modern data equipment is not available. Source: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. (MORE)
The advantage of telex is that when the message is sent, therecipient receives a receipt to confirmed by the answerback. Thetelex has been replaced with the fax machine, but i…t still used forcommunication for those who are deaf. (MORE)
I believe the German Siemens & Halske company had something to do with it. they did originate in Europe and were adapted to both landline ( like Western Union) and radiotelegr…aph service- and are still used in the latter role on ships. Unlike Phone calls or xeroxes, a telex print is a legal document! (MORE)
The telex service is an international network of teleprinters, which can exchange written information and data directly with one another in nearly every part of the world. Tel…ex systems in most countries are operated by the government. (MORE)
A telex release is simply a message that is sentby the shipping line or agent at load port to their office or agentat discharge port advising that the shipper or exporter ha…ssurrendered one or all of the original bills of lading that havebeen issued to them, and that the cargo can be released to theconsignee shown on the bill of lading without presentation of anyoriginal bills of lading. (MORE)
telex has almost disappeared, superseded by the fax machine and email. The advantage over telegraph is that ordinary people could read the output (Latin alphabet cf. Morse c…ode), and over the telephone that there was a written record and the recipient did not need to be present to receive a message. The disadvantages are, I think, that it is expensive and requires special phone connections. . (MORE)