The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-03

tapping the circular plate, which was about
six inches in diameter. Novels and valu-
able literature will be read to the phono-
graph by elocutionists and persons under
standing the subjects presented, and the
matter will be multiplied by electrotyping
in the same manner as music. lou see,
therefore, that you can have a monograph
in your parlor with an album of selected
photographic matter lying beside it. You
can take a sheet from the album, place ii on
the monograph, start the clock work and
have symphony performed. Then by
changing the sheet you can listen TO chap
ter or two from a fsvorite novel, and this
may be followed by song, duet or quar-
tet At the close the young people may IN
dulge in waltz, in which all may join, for
no one need be asked to play the dance
music. You can easily see" continued the
professor, what an advantage the phono-
graph will be to the blind; and. indeed, /
have already received one hundred orders
from such persons"
a blessing to persons who are con<titutiOnally
tired, suggested the reporter.
eyes, and 10 industrious persons, also"
answered Mr.. Edison. "YOu know a nan
can never Judge of the value of his own
words or exactly how to deliver them by
hearing his own voice. Now, ii q lawyer
speaks an address to the photograph in the
then has the instrument repeat it, he can
estimate very fairly what the effect would be
on a court and jury. Again, there are many
men who can talk better than they can write.
They can, therefore, talk to the monograph
without the hindrance necessarily caused by
using a pen; they can stop when they please
and wait Tor ideas, and then they can let
some one else copy the production as the
phonograph repeats IL. You see this opens
up vast field, and one suggestion follows
another. Now" continued Mr.. Edison, with
another of his happy laughs, ''the lover,
while waiting for his sweetheart to finish her
toilet, can place on the photograph sheet
of the pretty things she has said to him be-
fore, and so occupy himself for time with
her counterfeit presentment"
What will be the cost OF phonograph?
About 500. The instrument will be
finished in all styles and handsomely deco
rated"
"But how about the aerophone?' asked
the reporter.
ooh, / haven't time to attend to that" re
piled Mr.. Edison, Pm so busy with the
photograph. The aerophone is very simple
1t isn't like a calliope which requires key
board and different notes. 1t has only one
note, and the vibrations of that are formed
into words by the escape of the steam."
What are all these things" asked thu
reporter, for the first time discovering
show case filled with litter OF strang'
objects.
Those are odds and ends,' was the
answer. "I haven't got to them yet"
The reporter by this time had become con
WINGED that if Mr.. Edison had leisure h,
would find out the use of everything, how
ever common:
y primrose by the rivers brim
a yellow primrose was To him,
And
it was something more. The reporter wa
about founding question on this though
/ when ne discovered that Mr.. Edison hat
/ disappeared.
"He has become offended" thought tn
reporter, lat being questioned so much an,
has gone away But this was mistake
; In few moments Mr.. Edison returned, fol
lowed by man bearing a large tray. Thi
was placed on a table, and, the napkin bein
removed, bounhful lunch was discovered
'Pitch in SAID Mr.. Edison.
The scientific inquiries here ended