Litchfield enquirer., 1873-03-13

them | Well, drew Budlongs attention to tn last cutting, and began to read 1t to him
 It was Washington despatch of the da,
 before, with display head" somewha thus :- l TALKING MACHINE!
 THE GREAT PROFESSOR HANSERI FABERl! -.. ALL WASHINGTON CROWDS TO SEE IT GTGnt sdys he don't 4e0sat ct! ''The inventor has closely copied the form ant action of the different organs producing the hu man voice, and operated them in the same man ner; levers and springs taking the place of mus cles and nerves. The machine has bellows fo lungs, windpipe for the conduction of air, al lndAa-fubber larynx, with vocal cords modelled after those of man, and opening and closing il the samc manner. It has a fixed upper jaw o wood, with 8
 LIP OF LEATHER.
 The lower jaw is made of India-rubber; ani the mouth has a hard palate of hard rubber, ant movable tongue of flexible rubber" - .
 And SO on. 'tThere, Budlong," I said, "what do you think of that ?''
 '1 don't think,'' said Budlong: s'I know. See here p And with a wise kind of grin he fumbled Tn his breast pocket, and drew forth document, which read :- ..l.4
 Received &c.] of P. Budlong, in full for advertisement and notices of Budlone and Faber's machines, fifty dollars Jenks, Adv. Clk."
 It was from the office of the very same newspaper. I stared at Budlong, as amazed as Balboa,
 ''Silent upon peak in Darien,"
 when he first espied the boundless Pacific.
 ''What is it ?' I asked.
 "Why, it's costly business to get the right kind of notices in the papers,"
 'But do you know Faber? Were you ever at Vienna ?" ....t-.. ..
 "Hanserl is Viennese for Johnny" an- swered he, '1 know that and Faber is Latin for Smith; and professor is Ameri- can for anybody. Don't you remember old Johnny Smith ?" .-..'
 In short, this Dutchman is not a Ger man Dutchman, but Yankee one: nei- ther more or less than a self-taught me- chanician from the native town of both Budlong and myself. I knew the man had been deluded at one time by the same perpetual motion goblin that has fooled so many half-taught or Unbalanced minds: but had lost sight of him for years. He had, as my friend now informed me, ap- piled to him for assistance in his semi-ln- natic labors. Budlong, who, though ex- tremely queer, is not without some good
 d'ts, had set to work to help the poor S @w out of his delusion.
 very soon found" ," said Budlong,
 if attacked him directly, Iahaula
 Aoaafirna iris notions. had had some lde of my own about this talking ma chine for good while; and so I set Smith at work on that, and managed to give him some correct views on the first principles of mechanics, on pretence of investigations at odd times for improving his own invention. He has really a very fair faculty for mechanics, with some help in the reasoning part and, after a while, he found himself convinced, with out knowing how. I guess he's the only case on record of radical cure" /
 ''That is process worth considering the great tactical rule of fanking the ene- running the taiking-machine and Prof. Faber, of Vienna ?"
 "Yes; yienna's good place for the pelen's chess player. There's very neat and we've marketed enough of them to prove it, too. I'll tell you what,-Tn show you over the factory, and lot you make an article on the subject for one of the magazines, if you want to"
 scr or,ooo coid sstbo4 r oo,, <vo& # printed, if you will advertise little with them."
 ''I never bribe, said Budlong virtuous-
 ''I know that" said'I. ssWe abhor it equally still think it would look more like business. The advertisement would draw peoples attention to the and reading the article would have tendency to increase the circula- tion of the magazine.
 ''Oh P said Budlong "I hadn't seen it in that light. don't know but you are correct. We'll, say one page of advertise ment each time the article is printed ?"
 This it was agreed might offer "Now come along," said my friend. "I've got to go right up town this moment :; and I'll show you through the whole con cern."
 So we took University-pla car, Bar clay Street, corner of Broadway, which, with only ono transfer, left us within two or three blocks of our destination.
 On the way up, Budlong gave mo one piece of information which greatly helped me to understand his invention, and which will, believe, make it very clearly intelligible to most people who know what Q mitre-joint or & king-post or truss-bridge is, and, I hope, to those who do not. had remarked to him that I be- heved I understood the vocalizing part of his machine, which was, I presumed, a development of the mechanism used in Vaucanson's hute-player, Maelzers trump eter, and the various speaking automata, but that was thoroughly puzzled to see how he could deliver through the machine a long, connected discourse. could not suppose, added, that he was going to hide Q human being in each figure, as Von Kempelen did in his chess -player,-a device quite too thin (to use slang phrase of to-day, that may be classic to- morrow for the present state of intelli- gence.
 ''Not at all, my friend observed. "All my work is genuine mechanism. The de- vice for accomplishing what you refer to is, however, my own special invention, and is precisely what makes commercial article ont of the mere toy of those Euro pean fellows. I have simply adapted one of the parts of Alden's type-setting ma- chine to my use. Do you know that ma- chine?"
 As I did not, MT. Budlong went on, with kind of set though fluent clearness, which kept reminding me of the specified. tions in a patent dare say they were from precisely that source, at least in part. R. -
 Take twenty-six type, one for each English letter lay them down on theil cages close together, with the faces all one way, like a long row of people in bed iying "spoon-fashion." Then let differ. ent nlck or notch. or set of hicks lel nctches, belong to the upper edge of eaol oI the twenty-six. Suppose a thing like acomD, It's back as long as one type, wifi