The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-02-22
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The Revelations Of the Phansgraph.


rr' Correspondence Telegraph. .~
There is now lying before me sheet of
tin-foil " about twice the sizsaof a sheet
OF note paper. ~. 4 Fl da a .~.-=
| The eye can trace along it's shining sur
face number of parallel lines, composed of
slightly indented dots or marks some W hal
like those made by a telegraphie message
on slip of paper. a-7
| This sheet of "tiu-foil,'' while quite
smooth and unmarked, was wound around
| drum" and placed in phonograph ~
| (tirst cousin Or sister toa telephone), and
certain words were spoken and certain cries
uttered into the mouth of the instrument,
across which stretched disk OF "tin p or
ferrotype plate," provided with minute
"traeing point.'' F..r.,,se 50 s6 .
THIS point touched lightly on the tin foil,
| which, being rotated, passed in continu.
| GUS spiral line beneath the said tracing
point. Consequently, the vibrations pro.
duced in the diaphragm by the spoken
words caused the tracing point to cores
| pondingly indent the tin-foil There was
thus produced on the tin foil record of
the vibrations which constituted the spoken
| words.
To retransform this into speech, all that
was necessary was to move the drum back
to its original position, SO that che tracing
point rested on the tin-foil at the place
where it had begun to produce it's indenta-
tioDs,
On now rapidly turning the drum, the in
dented tin-foil passing under the tracing
point, caused it to move following the in
dentatien), and thus to vibrate the dia-
phragm i'll exactly the same manner in
which 1t had been moved before BY the
tones of the voice. This motion of the di-
aphragm (wonderful to relate) by CORES
pondlng motions of the air reproduce the
spoken words
The operator cried, "Next train ready .
Stops at Newark, Elizabeth, Railway, and
New Brunswick. All aboard, all aboard,
gentlemen - And then the machine being
put in operation, it repeated the cries, loud
ly and distinctly
Inqniring of the ingenious inventor how
often this series of cries could be repeated
eT rotating the same tin-foil record, he re-
lied that he had used the same tin foil
III, 4 thousand times, and found it still
effective.
Already this most extraordinary dlscov-
cry has been applied to practical purposes,
and the American Clock Company have
purchased the right to attach it to their
clocks, which will not strike, but call the
hours - o'clock 2 o'clock +! O'clock!
Alarm clocks will also be arranged not to
rattle with discordant rings, but to call out:
/ Four O'Clock! wake up, wake up what
are you sleeping for at this hour?
The guard at the depot gate will be su-
perseded by photograph, which at the
proper time will announce the next train
and name its stopping stations.
The number Of toys in the shape of talk
ing dolls which will fiji the land and enliven
the nurseries is beyond all calculation, and
no one can begin to name all the uses to
which the invention will be applied
feel Mr. Editor, in writing this brief
notice. that AM taxing your credulity, bat
here is the " tin-foil ~ object before me, and
have seen and heard &c Z" inlentations -
thus wonderfully Responded to by the ad.
justed diaphragm. e
A few months, however. will dispel all
doubts on the subject, and lead each one
of las to repeat the caption of this article,
and ask ..
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