Connecticut western news., 1877-02-23
womasrs oR she Telephone.

Elisha Grsy's invention, or discovery. whereby persons separated by long distan- twenty to fifty tniles-can con verss audiblY with each other through the telegraph wire, Is already exhibiting novel and pleasing illustrations of the various and wonderful uses to which 1t may be applied. 1t is already used to transmit music from city to city. Tue Chicago Tribune says . telegraph operator at Evanston the oth"r night was frightened almost out of bis witp by hearing his ''cut-out board" play ''Nine' ty-And Nine" He thought Sankey must be sitting on the top of Q pole somswherr along the line sending 6 message to the stray sheep to come into the fold. At tn same time. Mir. Summers, the electrician oi the Western Uni D Telegraph Co.,, seated in his home at Highwood. and provided with a connecting wire and s magnet on the table. also distinctly heard the music. ''Seventy miles away, in Milwaukee, tht Op ra House was crowded with prople as sembled listen to the lecture of c. H. Haskins '.n electricity. They also heard the hymn, and saw the box, and the mag net, and the wire. and were beside them selves with delight at this triumph of sci ence." The gentleman who was msnipu- lating the instrument was Mir. W. M Goodridye. who was at the office of the Western Union Telegraph company in Chicago.
 Another illustration of the telephone as musical instrument was given few nights since at the annual ball of the Chicago tel egrsphers, who danced to music played al Milwaukee. eighty-five miles distant.
 The Chicago Tribune alludes to Mir. Grsy's invention of the telephone as fol- lows:
 Mr. Gray. in connection with Mir. Good ridge, has been hard at work since 1873, developing the telephone, and be has made such progress as to insure the accomplish meni of his object-the sending of eight messages over one wire at the same time. The musical feature, not ss yet developed to its full extent, IS simply . novelty-evi dence of what can bs done. What may come out of 1t, Mir. Gray does not know. aimee the instrument is capable of elsbora. tior.. Already, though the telephone. as as present constructed Is not SD, cially adapted for 1t, harmony Can be sent ss well as melody.
 The invention may be sad to consist of three parts: one Is transmission of simple. melody, which Is received upon . magnet; another is transmission of either cords or diseords- s-composite tonss-which can all be received upon . single instrument; and the third is recesvrd on instruments that analYze the tones and pick out the one to which each instrument is atiuned. This is the valuable feature-tbe ability to transmit composite sounds simultaneously. each tone passing over the wire at certain vibration, and preserving its individuality ct the re- ceiving end, ana thus enabling the operator to hear the tone winch his ''box" Is de- signed to receive.
 The sending instrument, if the term is admissible, is virtually an electric. organ. It consists of reeds made of steel, tuned in the ordinary way to the musical scale, and these reeds are kept in vibration by galvan- ie batteres. When the operator begins to play on the keys, the whole series Of reeds are started and begin vibrating. and the noise made,is deafening when the doors of the organ srs open. A green bsize GOV. r ing on the inside deadens the sound when they are shut, and nothing can be heard. The keys close the msin circuit through their corresponding reeds, and sound the notes, which vlbrate the line. The inslru- meut now in use hes sixteen notes, and any tune can be play ed that comes within that compass. It is unlike any musical in. strument, except as to the sttuniDg of the reeds.
 The receiver is Q wooden tox, a large one for low note and small one for a high note, varying in size from eight inches long by four wide, to two feet by one and quarter. On the top, fastened securely. is s magnet. to which are attached the ''in and out wires. The armature mounted on the magnet is fixed rigidly at one end, and is male to Yibrste in front of the other pole. The magnet will give eff any one, and the box which is attuued to the partic- ular sender will take up the note and rr- Spond tO 1t. The principle, in Mir. Gray 5 words, is this:
 If send s sound along line which vi- brales l28 times second, and Ut the other end put box which is adjusted to thai rate, 90 that if excited mechanically 1t will produce that note, it will pick up the nOts as t comes over the wire and respond tu tt, and to no other rate of vibration. IL two messages are to be Sent, another trans. nitssl cab De put in, tuned to the Tate oi zoo vibrations. and St the other end 8 It. ceiver corresponding to it. Thus you CAL multiply trsnsmitters and receivers almost indsnnitely. A tone will always go to A box, and tone tO B box. etc. Theoreli- cally, we are only limited by the number Oi distinct notes that cAp be received. Prac ucally, We do not know what the limit viii be. Sixten tones have been senl-mor, than will probably ever be necessary un any line. The fine adjustment of the lnslru ment required viii De apt to limit the mum Der. E.ght messages tor long tune vii perhape oe the maxlmuM sent and received at one time. We are now experimentiup with view of equipping a nne between here and Buffalo.
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