The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-04-13
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! TO TIE EDiroR. OF The SUN-S;Ss: Si5 U5Ns-SS;ssi A,
4 eminent scientist Of this city, whose name i
d Withheld for The present, is SAID to be Q, .,
j the point of publishing q seriess Of imnpor
tant discoveries, and exhibiting aa iustru
meht invented by him, by means of which
objects or persons standing OR moving il
any part Of the world may be instantaneous
/ ly seen anywhere and by anybody. a IN.
utility or the electroscope Is undeniable, and
If the invention proves successful il will su
persede in avery short time tho. Ordinary
methods of telcgraphic and telephouic com.
munication. BY means of the eicctroscope
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or samples OF them, to any customer supplied
with the sauie instrument, whether in
Liverpool, London, Paris, Berlin, Calcutta,
Pekin, San Francisco, or New Orleans
Fugitive criminals placed in the elcctroscope
can be instantly identified by the police au-
thorities in any part of the globe Moth.
ers, husbands, and lovers will be enabled to
glance at any time at the very persons Of
their absent children, wives, or beloved
ones. Painters may retain their paintings
in their studio, and yet exhibit them sim
ultaneously in all the galleries of Europe
and America provided with tho 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 requesting the libra
rians to place the book, opened at the de-
sired page, into this marvellous apparatus.
The electroscope will undoubtedly supersede
the ordinary methods of tclegssphy,-as as Il
matter. 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 despatch in
the handwriting of the sender
And further, in case the telephone, the
new instrument for carrying musical sounds,
should succeed also in transmitting ordinary
conversations, a combination of the electro
scope and telephone will be made which will
permit people, not only actually to converse
with each other, no matter how far they are
apart, but also to look into each others eyes,
and watch their every mien, expression, ges-
ture and motion, while in the clectroscope.
Both telephone and clectroscope applied on
q large scale would render it possible to rep
resent at one time on hundred stages in
various parts of the world the opera or play
sung or acted in any given theatre. The
actors and singers will present, of course,
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ever, will not alwsys prove really unpleasant
to the audience.
8 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. Everybody knows that
the sensations of color which we perceive
are due to the varying strength and rapid
ity Of the undulations Of light cmanating
from the objects we look upon. Now, the
electroscope consists, to all outward appeaE
ancc, of two empty boxes, or rooms, accords
ing to the size required. One of the COM
partments is the transmitter, the other the
receiver In both compartments one side
or wall presents the ends of multitude Of
quasi-electlic wires of q peculiar make and
consistency. Each of these innumerable
wires transmits with the utmost accuracy
the faintest and strongest undulations of
every delicate or heavy wave of color that
strikes it horizontally from some object or
person opposite to it. Thus many thou.
sands of wires of the thickness Of line
carry conjointly the undulatiops of color
emanating from painting less than a foot
square. The wires are twisted outside of
the instrument into cable, which may be
extended to it's destination above or below
ground, or through the water. On entering
the receiver the cable is untwistcd, and each
tiny wire is made to occupy again its prop
er position in the side or wall of the COM
partment. The box, or room, acting as the
receiver, differs from the transmitter in
being constantly kept filled with newly
discovered gas, sort Of magnetic electric
ether, in which the currents of light or col
or become respendent again, and by means
of which the objects or persons present at
the time in the transmittor are reflected as
accurately as in acknowledgements,
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