The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-11
THE PHON0GRAPH.
How IL Is Operateti--Tia Poii speaIsing Like
Human Being.

4 We copy the following fine description
OF the phonograph from the AtlantG Con-
stitutson:
| The phoncgraph is here at last. And
Atlanta, recovering from the mortifica-
tion that seized her when she found that
Augusta and Macon had seen it before,
Is lifting her eyes slowly and looking at
its wonders.
WHAT THE PHONOGRAPH Is.
Tie phonograph is, to all appearance,
simply piece OF iron roller mounted on
q windlass. II is surmounted by
mouthpiece, inside of which are arrayed
few needles. just underneath three
needles, wrapped closely around the
roller, Ia q sheet Of tin foil.
| The voice Of the man who speaks to the
monograph shouts in this mouthpiecc
| The waves Of bis voice, striking against
the needles, impinge them against the
tin foil and mako little perforationa
therein. The roller must be turned
slowly aud regularly as the voice is pour.
ed in through the moutbpiece. When it
ie desired to reproduce the voice, the
sounded distinctly and in facsimile.
THE RESULT OF THE EXPERIMENTS.
There 10 no doubt that the phOnograph
exceeded the expectations Of those who
saw it. The experiments made succeed
ed wonderfully. The first words spoken
TO it we're these: "Mr. Phonograph, will
you talk 2" A breathless pause succeed
ed this question. The operator then
turned the roller steadily, and from the
depths of the phonograph came the words,
in ghost like, metallic tones, "Mr. Phon-
ograph, will you talk ?"' There was
something actually uncanny about it..
The few spectators looking wonderingly
:n each others Gees5, anu Harris turned
pale to the roots of his hair, which was
pretty pale. II almost surpassed belief,
that this instrument could 10 reproduce
the sounds Of. the human voice.
Inc operator then barked in it, and
when he turned the crank you would
have thought That he was turning il
over the toes of an imprisoned dog. He
!, sung into 1t, and the tune was reproduced
with startling distinotness, with al tho
infections. A ccronet solo that was
poured into the instrument from the lipa
of como musical Maconite, was then re-
produced, sud gave great delight to tho
crowd. The song OF "Old Uncle Ned"
was then sung to the foil and tune
whistled In over it. The song and the
whistle were then reproduced simulta-
neously. The marvellous instrument
then crowed, prayed, laughed, whoopsd,
coughed, and issued every-sound that the
human voice was capable ofIauggeeting
to it. -. ,u..t3ss; 4. :
The tones Of the voice are perfectly re.
produced, and the accent namorsblv
preserved, but the volume of the voice is
much less than In nature. The gutteral
sounds are occasionally indistinct. but
words spoken into 1t clearly can be heard
across largo room very plainly. I
< fyiuSaer William Henry Peck spoke
o ShakspeariaD quotation into the phon.
ograph, and every sound.of his voice was
reproduced with perfect distinctne5s,
even the catches that he purposeiy threw
In being duplicated. In pronouneing
the word trat' he rolled his "rss" end the
machine, in reproducing the woEd, would
have made q Frenchman ashamed of
himself. The machine is yeritable
wonder, and every citizen of Atlanta
tshould BIO sure and see it:
A A$400,00G LIFT.
There are no monographs for sale.
There are only forty In existence, all of
them being used for exhibition pnr-
ipose=. Of these twenty-five are in Amer
ica and fifteen in Europe. The right to
exhibit them has been sold at enormous
prices. The one in Boston sold for SI0..
ID00, and it ia probable that every. one
brought this much. If this is SO. the
iirst 40 machines will yield the inventor
Edison was born in America, about three
months after his parents reached this
Sountry. He was very poor for tho most
OF hia life, and it is said that he had
VERY little business talent. BE failed
once, however, for about $500 900, which
argues avery good order OF talent. He ID
now worth probably million dollars.
BE. has an annual income from the
1 Western Union Telegraph Company of
| $56, goo for certain inventions of bis that
they are now using. The 1Vastarn
/ Union Company has agreed to take 12-
600 of these machines 40 eoon as they
are perfected, aud to pay him SI28, 900
iper annnm for the use of them, Thar
iGea is tG combine them with telephores.
and speak dispatches instead of eenai., :
them through Instruments. Edison has
now III patents, every one of which is
connected with telegraphy or electricity,
| every one of which yields him some In.
icome. Ea 1ia.
| Ia Augusta, Mr. Morey succeeded'in.
having nine languages spoken. into. the.
machine, and in Sayannah eleven Lam.
gaages were spoken. Atlanta must de-
!, ,cidedly outdo these towns. Prof. Peck
has already, led off with some English,
Irish, Latin, Greek, French, Spanish.
l Italian, Hebrew, Chinese, Iiidian, and
| aigger. a half dozen ianguages can
I douetless be added TO these. .si1s Fai
THE USES 10 WHICH THE hpHONoGRAPII
i uan be put are Infinite - The prcpriseors,
propose to print books upon tin foIl. A
uipgie sieot Of foil will taks hook OF
900 pages, and 1t can be read, of. to q
family instead Of them having TO read it.
book done up this way viii sost only
| 10 cents.
The machine will dc away with steno-
Igraphic reporters. It Ii NOW 60 perfeo. 4
ted that It can be set nine feet of from o ],
speaker and drink in aud record every,
word snd inflcctiec shRt he usea, so thE
II can be. linwonI {. At pleasure, It IL al
ready being put in clocks so, that they
lwhl call ont, the honrs instssd of strikiug
them, 1t cen call out Instructions &c
| any time of tho day so that d person can
be reminded Of what he must do.
q speaker cari have his El0ne his bot.
neetarer can speak his leotaFa 81 IL aud |
have it wound simultaneously in To- dog
Zen cities, An opera sronps eau sing an
/ pEefa in it, and d niaGhger can then car-
| ~ his troupe lii his trunk, ufiwindina q /
little ParepA Rosa and Ainiies &C "a.
lncanoed Intervals. "a preacher San load
aplionoSe graph with a1ozen earfncas and
shen 90 OF on e. vacation aad oilet his'
ia fa f, All hJy q r. a. S=t, :,