The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-16
DiaphOtc and TeleOpticOn.
II Latest Wonders in the World of Invcn
ton, Providing they are not Humbugs.

hC htfbt Ohtt III u NfOTlu oil InNAn-
ton, Providing they are not Humbugs.
Wonders will never cease. Inven
tons transmitting thoughts long dis
tances and writing them out by %elcctri-
city, painting pictures by sunlight,
copying and reproducing the human
voice, talking to people miles away in
the tom of tete-a-tete conversation, are
followed by All invention which brings
the figure of the persons holding COW
verse at a distance directly into each
others presence. In other terms the
telegraph, monograph and telephone
are followed by the diaphote, by DR..
Licks, of Bethlehem, Pa, and the telc-
phote-telicon, or teleopticon whichever
name may be adopted), by Connolly
and McTighe, of P~ittsburg. Tho late
inventions claim to send the picture to
the speaker along with the voice by
telephone. 1t is stated that the Licks
diaphote requires a large number of
wires, and rather complicated macbin-
cry to make it work, which may render
it impracticable for general use. while
the Connolly and McTighe teleopticon
requires but M wire, and is in other
respects recommended by its simplicity.
1t is further reported hat these inven-
tons have been tested by experiments
before scientific committees, and are
found to work. DIR. ii. II. Licks claims
that his instrument will send forms and
colors by wire as words are sent. The ap.
paratus consists of a receiving mirror,
the transmitting wires, a common gal,
vanic battery and the reproducing spec-
ulum. After witnessing some late ex-
pcriments with the diaphote, one of
the investigating professors made a few
remarks upon the probable scientific
and industrial applications of tho inven-
ton. lie said, in substance, that with
the telephone and diaphote IL might be
possible for friends separated by the
Atlantic ocean TO hear and see each
other at The Same time, and to talk Ms il
were a to face. IL might be used TO
enable railroad men to see hundreds of
miles OF railroad track at once, and in
connection with photo-lithography IL
might be so employed as to print the
great English dailios in New York a
few hours after their appearance In
London. DIR. Licks has applied for
seven patents to secure his invention.
and he seems 10 have no doubt aboui
10 BinotitnphitJ anu u tlInhto pcr-
Reliability.
The teleopticon claims TO be able TO
transmit the physical wave force of
light by electricity, similar 10 transmis-
sion by telephone. Ii having been de-
monstrated that electricity is a condi-
ton of solar light, this invention con-
verts electricity back again into the
condition Of light. The Inventors be-
lieve they will be able 10 transmit sim
ultanously, from one point 10 another.
any written or printed document-eyen
the entire side of a newspaper. The
reproduction of the image is explained
TO be the result of chemical changes
which are perfectly well known to ali
photographers. The image of any OBJ
ject is sent in diminished size, and Ia
magnified at the receiving point TO the
required size. The inventors admit
that the teleopticon is yet in its infancy.
but they have no doubt whatever OF ia
ultimate perfection. In "a Strange
Story" Bulwer thought he was writing
a fiction when he Invested Margraye
with the power of casting his image
wherever he willed it to go, by a sort
Of occult magnetic projection. These
of the diaphQte and teelopti-
con, if their claims are fully subsian-
proclaim the novelist's Wis
ions fulfilled prophecies and marvellous
facts. Isl. Louis Republican.