The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-25
EDISON's INVENTIONS.
The Astounding Possibilities OF the Aero
phone and Photograph.
From "a. Ssv YorA GrupAic.

phone and RhOuOGraph.
From Ae EeU York GrasAic
Edison then showed us his disman-
tied aerophone. ''Some of it started
for Europe last week" said he, ''and
l can't show you how it sounds. But
here, you see, is the same tynlpanual
that We use in the telephone and pho
nograph; we speak against this, and
its vibrations, instead of pricl1ing q.
sheet of tinfoil, opens and closes q.
valve in the steampipe, and thus gives
70 the whistle the articulatiOns of the
human voice. 1t Is much simpler than
the phonograph, and its audible speech
can be heard four miles, or even more
l will guarantee that it shall read the
Declaration of Independence so that
every word will be distinctly heard by
every citizen of Manhattan Island
1t viii call out the stations on a rail
road, and the locomotive will go
through the country talking whatever
the engineer thinks it necessary to say.
Steamers can converse at sea. Light
houses can warn ships in a storm.
Fire districts can be shouted, also in
formation whether fire is spreading
or is being mastered"
Evil have on exhibition st Paris,
said Edison, "eight telephones, besides
my photograph and aerophone."
ITO what use do you expect the
photograph will be putt" he was
asked. Several, he replied.
81. For debating it will take tn
place of shorthand reporters, as thus :
a man who has many letters to writ e
will talk them to the photograph, and
send the sheets directly to his cores
pondents, who will lay them ON the
phonograph and hear what they had
to say. Such letters as go to people
who have no photograph, will be
copied from the machine by the office
boy.
80. For reading. A first class
elocutionist will read one of Dickens
novels into the photograph. 1t can
all be printed on a sheet ten inches
square, and these can be multiplied by
the million copies by a cheap process
of electrotyping. These sheets will be
sold for, say, twenty-five cents. A
man is tired and his, wife's eyes are
failing, and so they sit around a table
and hear the telephone read from this
sheet the whole novel with all the ex-
pressions of q irst-class reader. A
company for printing these is already
organized in New York.
SO. It will sing in the very voice Of
Patti and Kellogg, SO that every family
can have an opera any evening.
az. It may be used as musical
composer. When singing some favor
lite airs backward it hits some lovely
airs, and I believe musician could
get one valuable popular melody every
day by experimenting in that way.
| ''5. It may be used to read to in
mates of bliud asylums, or to the ig
norant who have never learned t.
read.
IS. It may be used to teach Ian
guages, and I have already the right
! to use it to teach children the alpha
bet. Suppose Stanley had had one,
and thus obtained for the world al
the dialects of Central Africa?
90. 1t will be used to make toys
talk. A company has already organ
lied to make speaking dolls. They
will speak in little girls voice, and
Will never loose the gift any more
than LITTLE girl.
''8. It will be used by actors tc
learn the right readings of passages
In fact, its utility will be endless"