Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-04
you the hour of the day, call you to lunoh,.end

you the hour of the day, call you to lunch, send
your lover homo ut ton, etc.
Advertising, etc.-This class Of phonograph-
ToTs y 80 akin to the foregoing .na' II "
speech and Other Utterances.-lt Will hence
forth be possible to preserve to our future gen
erations the voices Is well as the words OF our
Washlngtons, our Lincolns, our dladstones,
ETC., and to have them give us their greatest
effort" in every town and hamlet IN the coun-
ty upon our holidays.
Lastly, and in quite another direction, the
phonograph will perfect the telephone and
revolutlonize present systems OF teiegraphy.
That useful invention is now restricted IN Its
field of operation by reason OF the tact that 1t
Is means of communication which leaves no
record of its transactions, thus restricting Its
use to simple conversational chit chat, and
such unimportant details of business as are
not considered Of sufficient importance
to record. Were this different, and our tele-
phone conversation automatically recorded, we
should find the reverse of the present status OF
the telephone. 1t would be expressly resorted
to as means of perfect record. In writing
our agreements we incorporate in the writing
the summing up of our Observation-Disclosures
entirely new and different phraseology from
that which we used to express our understand
ing of the transaction in it's discussion, and
not infrequently thus begetting perfectly In
nocent causes Of misunderstanding. Now, II
the telephone, with the phonograph to record
| its sayings, were used in the preliminary dis
cussion, We would not only have the full and
correct text, but every word of the whole mat
ter capable of throwing light upon the subject.
Thus it would seem clear that the
men would find it more advantageous to &C
| tually separate half mile or SO IN order to
discuss important business matters, than to
discuss them verbally, and then make an awk-
ward attempt to clothe their understanding in
new language. The logic which applies to
transactions between two individuals III the
same Office, applies with the greater force tc
| two at a distance, who must discuss the matter
| between them by the telegraph OF mail: Ano
this latter case, in turn, Is reinforced by the
demands Of an economy of time and money al
every mile of increase of distance between
them.
chow can this application be made?" viii
probably be asked by those unfamiliar will
either the telephone or phonograph.
| Both these inventions cause plate or disk t.
| yibrate, and thus produce sound waves il har
mony with those Of the voice of the speaker
very simple device may be made to do dut,
for both the telephone and the photograph
| thus enabling the speaker to simultaneously
transmit and record his MASSAGE What system
of telegraphy can approach that! slmlla
combination at the distant end OF the wire en-
ables the correspondent, if he is present, t.
hear it while it is being recorded Thus W
have mere passage of words for the action
but complete and durable record of thos
words as the result of that action. Can econc
my of time or money go further than to ami
hilate time and space, and bottle up for poster
ity the mere utterance of man, without othe
effort on his part than to speak the words?
| In order to make this adaptation, it is onl,
requisite that the photograph shall be mad
slightly more sensitive to record, and the tele
| phone very slightly increased in the vibratin
! force of the receiver, and it is omplished
Indeed, the Carbon Telephone" invented an
! perfected by the writer, will already we'll mig
| effect the record on the phonograph; and, a
more decided vibration OF the plate of the re
ceiver, this addition to the telephone may
looked for coincident with the other practice
applications of the phonograph, and with al
most equal certainty.
The telegraph company of the future-an
that no distant one-will be, simply, o,
ganization having huge system of wires, Ger
| trai and sub-central stations managed b
skilled attendants, whose sole duty it will
to keep the wires in proper repair, and give, b
switch or shunt arrangement, proper attentio
to subscriber No. 923 in New York, when h
| signals his desire to have private communica
ton with subscriber No. ], DOL in Boston. fl
| three minutes The minor and totally inco1
in the eyes of the groove-traveling telegrap
man. welded to existing methods will who'll
disappear before that remorseless Juggernau
''the needs of man, for will not the nece
stiles of man surmount trifes, in order to rea
the full benefit of an invention which pra.
tically brings him face to face with whom
will, and, better still, doing the work Of col
scientious and infallible scribe?
| THOMAS A. EDISON.