The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-05-24

The mysdeIlOus .ciephOhe
The word telephone is a common
name ior several inventions oil oil which
aim to reproduce tones NJ a distance 3y
means oil elec'fo'magnelismi but the only
ones oil any consequence before me pun
lie ale hose OF Elisha Hray Oh Nhicogo'
ana ffol' zen, oil Alassaehnsests' Inc
llrs' Of 'heso is inc one lately employed
70 give q concert IN new lork py means
Of an instrument played IN fniiaue'Phia'
Ahd' WINE II ~ very interesting :" aoeS
no. ouet lhePromise Oh ueVeiopmGa' anu
value wnicn attaches 10 Inc b9ll 'ele'
phone. MI etuys apparatus comprises
asehuios anu receiving instrument tue
former Is III inc shape oil two,oclaVe
hsy.po1tu, "noSs Keys ,' arc a'saSnsu ~
tuning iofAs, eaoh o' wnieh EaaslllIs i;S
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useoH;'"ugu, auu 'ne human VOICE OF 'nc
'onu % ~ t"esIu.uun. Is lt'eli 'naue 'ne
mssns .. seusro'!ls tne 'IsG't.c current
HLa etyuI ;. i'.ell IN al ''S oIlrae.
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S Ts: ., y. nuna'eGs n o. mus ~,
t"i, in''u%e"' VI Ir9'' De,'' Is ca
tfemeiy simple ana Do'h SENDS ana re-
ceiVes tue souhas' II consists Of an oFu''
nary elec'ro'moGnes' mounted before a
membrane o. s'eet IN a soundlng'Dox' ana
connected win a telegraph wire. 1t can
be used and was used not long ago
In connection with battery, transmit
ing music from a telephone organ by
means Of small steel points touching the
reeds OF the instrument, aud each COM
mnnicatlns with the wire. by this means
musical tones land chords) are produced
at the receiving end oil the wire used.
But It's distinguishing achievement re-
qulres no battery, and could not, in TACT,
be attained with one.
10 send the tones OF the human voice
the instrument is disconnected with the
battery, and the circuit made through
the earth. The message is then uttered
IN a funnel leading into the sounding.
box, and the sound-waVes oil the voice,
striking upon the membrane within, are
instantaneously converted into magnetic.
electric vibrations along the wire, and at
the other end OF the circuit are repro
duced with dtstinclness, and with their
characteristics SO preserved that the
speaker can be recognized. In the same
manner the tones OF a cornet, or other In
strument whose sound can be gathered
INTO the tunnel OF telephone, arc re.
peated; we believe a violin has been used,
and undoubtedly means may DO devised
Ter catching also the many chords Of
piano, or even orchestra, SINCE there is
no obstacle to the simultaneous trans
mlsslonol different tones.
oicourse these results are as yet i'm
perfect, Tor The invention is in its very
infancy but its marvellous character
needsno emphasizing. 1t is folly to at
tempt to get any limits to its develop.
meat, The things we have briefly
mentioned were done over distance
Of 6O mics but some oil the pub
lie trials have been at longer distances;
and in private experiment conversation
has been carried on between New York
and Boston, through 25S miles Of wire.
The NEST remarkable test far occurred
in New Haven, in company including
members OF the faculty OF Yale college.
Instead OF making connection with the
earth second wire was used Tor the re-
turn circuit, and these wires were extend:
ed IRON telephone through several
apartments into a room where sixteen
persons stood in two ranks the first per-
son in each rank took the end OF one wire
and the eighth person in each touched
wires attached to the magnet OF second
instrument, and the tones of the voice
were sent with entire success through
these sixteen human bodies. After this
Prof. Bell may reasonably anticipate
talking across the Atlantic. The resist
ance experienced in sending an electric
enrrent through the cable is placed at
1000 ohms (the ohm Is the unit OF resist
ance, in the technic phrase Of eleetri.
eians), while that Of the human body is
The nraetical nses III Tho invention ,ro
suggesting themselves already. Wbethsr
the Transmission Of music will ever be
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