Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-18
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81. 1t will be used TO make tovs
talk. A company has already organ
lied to make speaking dolls. They
will speak in little girls voice and
will never lose the gift any more than
little girl.
So. 1t will be used by actors to
learn the right reading Of passages.
In fact, its utility will be endless. .
Here is story characteristic of his
methods: In the development of the
automatic telegraph, it became neces.
sary to have solution that would
give . chemically prepared paper up.
on which the characters could be re-
corded at a speed greater than 200
words minute. There were numer.
GUS solutions in French books but
none of them enabled him to exceed
that rate. But be had invented a
machine that would exceed it, and
must have the paper to match
the machine. 81 came in one
night" johnson, an associate of Edi-
son says to the Graphic, "and there
sat Edison with pile OF chemistries
and chemical books that were FIVE
feet high when they stood on the
floor laid one above the other. He
had ordered them from New York.
London and Paris. He studied them
night and day. He ate at his desk
and slept in his chair. In six weeks
he had gone through the books, writ.
ten volume of abstracts, made 1000
experiments on the formulas and had
produced q sOlution--the only one in
the world-that would do the very
thing he wanted done, record over
800 words minute on a wire $50
miles long. He has since succeeded
in recording 3,lOO words a minute.
This statement will be doubted by the
incredulous, but / have seen it done. /"
Those who have worked with him
believe that he can involve from his
own brain any invention required.
"Does he know what is in all of
those 5000 walls on the shelves ?" in.
CURED the Graphic. 'sThat he does. /"
was the reply, she bought them all
himself. Whenever he hears of new
compound, he Immediately orders it.
for he does not know how soon he
may need it,
Edison has studied astronomy also.
and in conjunction with Prot. Lang.
ley, of Allegheny University, is now
engaged in devising improvements in
the telescope.
"You may say this for me- says
Edward FL. johnson, an associate of
Edison, "at.er long and intimate &C.
quaintance, ! allege that Edison is
one Of the fairest and squarest men /
ever knew. He is perfectly honest and
the men who are trying to avail them
selves Of his ingenuity by slandering
him will be exposed and beaten"
Thomas A. Edison was born in Mi.
Ian, Erie county, O., February 18th,
lS47, and therefore is now only 81
years of age.
"How many patents have you ia,
ken out Z" asked him to-day.
Il don't exactly know" he sale, land
went to his bookkeeper to ascertain.
"That one received today" said
that functionary, snakes 157 patents.
! and seventy seven more have been
applied for and are pending in Wash
ington."
"You understand, said Mr.. Edi-
son, that not more than ten Of these
is of any real practical value. The
rest are obtained for the purpose Of
protection. Not more than ten or
fifteen of my patents are worth any
thing except to prevent somebody
from stealing the rest. This phono-
graph, for instance shall have to
take out dozen patents to defend it.
shall get a patent on every kind of
photograph / can think Of
When Edison is in the throes of in.
vention he scarcely sleeps at all. Some
times be does not 60 to his house for
four or FIVE days, though it is within
thirty rods. They send him his meals
at such times, for he has not yet dis
covered any method of getting along
without any food. "For ten years."
Mr.. johnson says, she has averaged
eighteen hours day. Ihave worked
with him for three consecutive months,
all day and all night, except catching
. little sleep between and Q in the
morning"
Mr.. Edison is the originator Of the
electro photograph, for which he re-
ceived the eighth patent issued by the
United States for original discovery;
and is the inventor of the American
district telegraph 1.-THE messenger ser.
vioe), the stock reporter, the auto
matte system, the chemical recorder,
the Roman-letter printing telegraph,
| the celebrated quadruplex system, on
which the Western Union pays him
large royalty, the speaking telephone,
and the electric pen for duplicating
letters and circulars, of which $4,000
are now in use,