In 1916, Edward Kleinschmidt filed a patent application for a typebar page printer.[1] In 1919, shortly after the Morkrum company obtained their patent for a start-stop synchronizing method for code telegraph systems, which made possible the practical teleprinter, Kleinschmidt filed an application titled "Method of and Apparatus for Operating Printing Telegraphs"[2] which included an improved start-stop method.[3] The basic start-stop procedure, however, is much older than the Kleinschmidt and Morkrum inventions.