The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-01
THE TELEPHONE,

1dh IhLhP dUNE,
The transmission of sound over wires
by electricity, as exemplifed by Prof.
Elisha Gray's Telephone, has excited no
little wonder among the great masses
of people, and has given science new
cause to clap its hands and rejoice. To
take look at this new invention
reporter of The Post yesterday after
noon stepped in upon the Professor,
and found him surrounded by his pets,
chained lighting. On the second floor
of the Union building, in a room
opposite the elevator entrance, is
little affair that looks like very small
cabinet organ. A complication of
wires, telegraphic keys and batteries
grace the lower part of this cabinet,
and on top, arranged like an organ, are
sixteen keys, giving sixteen distinct
notes. A wire runs from this to a
sounding box and is continued to the
fourth story. where are the reeds or
sounding boxes of the telephone. Sew
eral tunes were played for the benefit
Of the reporter, the operator being on
the second floor and the audience on
the fourth. So much has been said of
the musical powers of the telephone,
that it win be unnecessary to make
extended mention of it. The musical
| feature is, however, nothing more than
novelty, at least for the present.
Each box of the gamut gives sepa-
rate and distinct tone, and will speak
no other note than the one for which
| it is constructed. The principle is like
the theory relating to graduated waves
of sound. The heavy notes are produc-
ed by a slow vibration. The more the
notes ascend on the treble the more
rapid becomes the vibrations. COnse-
lquently, $50 vibrations will not elicit q
sound from the box constructed to
respond to 100 vibrations, but will pass
through it until it reaches the reed that
corresponds to the note of the instru-
ment struck. Each note becomes then
substitute for a wire. Eight opera
tors can sound eight different messages
over one wire by this simple process;
the operators choose their key note or
sound, at the other end of the
lime, other operators are prepared
to receive the different sounds
and by listening to the vibrations
issuing from their respective boxes,
they can analyze the different sounds
and interpret ever message. The mes
|sage is sent just as by the old method
An operator uses G for instance. G
gives out its never varying monotone.
Now, by touching it for dashes and
dots, as in the old system, he sends his
message without interfering with his
co-operator who is sending message
by the key note of F. A message was
sent in this manner for the edifcation
OF the Faber, and it was entirely
successful. Prof. Gray has a new and
big thing under the sun, but he has
aninstrument that will even eclipse the
telephone. This is an instrument that
prints the message. The operator can
send message from here to any city
in the Union with thrice the rapidity
of the present system, nor will q receiv-
eT be required at the other end, an
automatic machine printing every
letter at the terminus just as quickly
as the wires will transmit them. The
success of this scheme would be to
reyolutionize biography
and raise up something whereat the
world could wonder. 1t only remains
now for some one to invent tachypomp
to cause Ben Franklin to howl in an
ecstacy of joy from his field Of specula-
ton beyond the Clouds Chicago
Eae4lt41g Post.