The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-07-12
An Invention that Beats the Tel
ephOne.

chester detective.
An Invention that Beats the Tel
ephOne.
An eminent scientist of New York,
whose name is withheld for the present,
is said to be upon the point of publish
ing a series of important discoveries,
and exhibiting an instrument invented
by him, by means of which objects or
persons standing or moving in any part
of the world may be instantaneOusly
seen everywhere and by any body. The
utility of the electrOscope is undeniable,
and if the invention proves successful it
will supersede in very short time the
ordinary methods of telegraphic and tel
ephonic communication. By means of
the electroscope merchants will be able
to exhibit their goods or samples Of
them, to any customer supplied with
the same instrument, whether in Liver
pool, London, Paris, Berlin, Calcutta,
Pekin, San Francisco or New Orleans.
Fugitive criminals placed in the electro
scope can be instantly identified by the
police authorities in any part of the
globe. Mothers, husbands, and lovers
will be enabled at any time to glance at
the very persons of their children, wives,
or beloved ones. Painters may retain
their paintings in their studio, and yet
exhibit them simultaneously in all the
galleries OF Europe and America pro
vided with the invention. Scholars are
thus enabled to consult in their own
rooms any rare and valuable work or
manuscript in the British Museum,
Louvre or Vatican, by simply request
ing the librarians to place the book,
opened at the, right page, into this mar
velous instrument. The electrOscope
will undoubtedly supersede the ordinary
method of telegraphy, as it matters very
little how long or how short may be the
message transmitted by it, not to speak
of the advantage of being able to read,
when desired, the original dispatch in
the handwriting of the sender.
And further, in case the telephone,
II e new instrument for carrying must
cal sounds, should succeed also IN trans
hitting ordinary conversations, a COM
bination of the electroscope and tele-
phone will be made which will permit
people not only to actually converse
with each other, no matter how far they
are apart, but also to look into each 9th
er's eyes and watch every mien, express
sion, gesture, and motion while in the
electroscOpe. Both telephone and cleo
troscOpe, applied on large scale, would
render it possible to represent at one
time, on hundred stages in different
parts of the world, the opera or play
sung or acted in any given theater. The
actors and singers will present, of course,
a certain ethereal appearance when
thus viewed from great distance, which,
however, will not always prove unpleas-
ant to the audience.
The invention is based, as far as
known, on the principle of transmitting
the waves of light given out by objects,
in a manner similar TO the transmission
of sound waves by the telephone. Every
body knows that the sensations of color
which we perceive are due to the vary
ing strength and rapidity of the undu-
lations Of light emanating from the OBJ
jects we look upon. Now, the electro
scope consists, to all outward appear
ance, of two empty boxes or rooms, ac-
cOrding to the size required. One of
the compartments is the transmitter,
the other the receiver. In both COM
partments one side or wall presents the
ends of a multitude of quasi-electric
wires of a peculiar make and consis-
tency. Each of these innumerable
wires transmits with the utmost accu-
racy the faintest and strongest undula-
tions of every delicate wave of color
that strikes it horizontally from some
object or person opposite to it. Thus
many thousand wires of the thickness
of line carry conformity the undula-
tons of color emanating from paint
ing less than foot square. The wires
outside the instrument are twisted into
a cable, which may be extended to its
destination above or below ground, or
through the water. On entering the re-
ceiver the cable is UNFINISHED, and each
tiny wire is made to again occupy its
proper position in the side or wall of
the compartment. The box or room
acting as a receiver differs from the
transmitter in being constantly kept
filed with a newly discovered gas, a
sort of magnetic electric ether, in which
currents of light or color become re-
splendant again, and by means of which
the objects or persons present at the
transmitter are reflected as accurately
as in a mirror.-NeW York Sun.
A Good Sunday-schOOl Lesson.