Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-08-03

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ordinary Telephone Al recent exhi-
bitisn # these experiments % Q lee
scientific friends in Lpedou, all the as-
tnuishing Effects that have been referred
TO were easily produced, except the ny
performance. With great difficulty the
philosophers found ny in the house.
With yet greater difficulty they
Caught the insect. But the final trouble
was insurmountsble; the captured fly
would stay ON the glass tumbler that i'm
prisoned him; nothing could induce him
to walk on the sounding. board which
the tumbler covered. But witness to the
scene. describing it in Nature, found con-
ISOLATION in watching Professor Huxley
talking with great sOlemnity to u glass
tube two inches long, his grave tones be-
ing loudly enunciatsd to q listener with
q telephone in distant apartment.
The philosophy of the new invention
is more difficult to explain than il the
telephone itself. The discovery has been
made by Professor Hughes that the Vi
bratiOn Of sound are reproduced with the
greatest delicacy and increased force, by
certain materials interposed in an cleo
trio circuit. The reproduced sounds
gain their increase of power, doubtless,
at the expense of TIE current. After u
large number of experiments, he gives
the preference to carbon for this purpose
especially to pieces of charcoal that have
been heated to wilderness, and then
plunged into mercury. These pieces, in
one Of his experiments, he placed in a
glass tube, and brought pressure upon
them that squeezed their ends together.
This apparatus was made part of q closed
electric circuit of three snail cups. A
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the circuit, and the whole thing was
complete. All that was nccessary<o do
was to talk to the tube, even at re-.
spectlul defiance from it, aud the tele-
phone repeated the Sound, at any dis
lance yet tried, with loudness depend.
ent only on the pressure in the tube.
THIS disposes ut once Of the fear that
the telephone was nearing the end of its
usefulness as an instrument for Convey
ing speech. 1t is only at the beginning.
With such means there will lie NO OBJ
stacle to reporting public speaker or
singer; no difficulty, in fact, in hearing
whispers inaudlble to unassisted ears.
All that has ever been imagined as
among the possibilities of the phono-
praph or the telephone seems now GER
tain to be Outdone. Since the falling Of
pin can now be heard at the distance of
u hundred miles, little will he needed to
realize Hoods metaphor, that Silence
shall herself be making u row.-N. Y.
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