Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-07-27

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The telephone, zerophoEe asi phnno-
graph have ab-orbei bin f,r : ,me time
lie has mere import4n, Improvements ia
the first named instrument. The phsno-
graph for practical US; lie is nov COM
ple,ing, an ia three or for months the
practical machine, which is to consist oi
u fiat disk instead of acyiinder now
used, will lie put TN the market. He an
ticipn,es that it will be in demand among
merchants who have large correspond
encc; II man who may read his mail, aud
as lie reads speak his replies to each let
ter at once into the phonograph, which
will work at set speed by clock ar
rangement. When all is done the instru-
mcnt will be turned over to clerk, who,
setting the clockwork to so more slowly,
will copy from its dictatiun. 1t is also
suggested that skilled readers will be en-
plOyed to read novels and other works
into a phonograpb, and the impressions,
being duplicated cheaply and made per.
manent, may then be sold for the use of
the blind or for persons who wish to
spare their eyes, and for whom the phon-
ogragh will read aloud at the Preside. 1t
is said that clock company in Connecti-
cut has already bought of Mr.. Edison the
right to use form Of photograph which
is to he cheaply applied to clocks, which
will then cali out the hours and half hours
instead of striking. There can be no
doubt that the monograph will be boon
to the blind.
The acrophone is an instrument intend
cd TO increase very greatly the volume OF
the human voice. 1t is more ingenious
than the photograph. In steam whistle
or an organ pipe is placed a delicate
valve controlling the supply of the steam
or air. This valve is connected with a
similar to that used in a
and telephone, aud the vi
Of the diaphragm cause move
ments in the valve, which opens and
closes in exact accordance with the vi
of the human voice cOmmuni-
Gated to the diaphragm; throws the steam
or air into similar vibrations, and :hus
reproduce the words spoken. In fact it
gives the speaker additional wind, and
it would be very useful to members OF
the House of Representatives, whose hall
is one of the most trying in the world to
the voice and throat. 1t is curious that
the tin foil produced in photograph
may be applied and used in an aerophone,
and will cause the steam whistle to give
out the words which the photograph has
recorded. The possible abuses Of this
machine are so evident that Edison has
already had offers from eager advertisers
who want to use it to shout out the merits
Of their wares to n whole country at a
time, aud if the inventor should let it fall
into reckless hands we may see special
sessions of State Legislatures called this
summer to put down what might easily
become an intolerable nuisance. Its le-
gitimate uses are for fog signals and
steamships, and possibly railroad trains.
1t is said that the phonograph was sug-
gested to Ellison by u remark of General
Butler, who, examining a telephone, said
to the inventor:
"Now you must make something to re-
cord these sounds"
AT the Smithsonian Institute the other
day E lisou cav a phonautograph, ma
chine used for deiiIea;ipg graphically
the form of the sound waves, aud exam
inirg it curieas.y moment he remarked
b. a frieni:
~wi,e men, these were, m, to zee that
the; coali pot hard point and piece
Il tiafosi in frcnt Of il and there MAS the
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lie ~as Esked by $ ssihrrn Senator