Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-28
To Telephone Across the Ocean.
Webster GiIIstte's Apparatus to Increase Transmitted Sound.
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 Transmitted Sound.
 From the New York sunl
 There is an inventor in the village of Flushing, l.. I, who believes he has an appa- ratus that will revolutionize the telephone business and materially increase the useful ness of the Atlantic cable. He has rooms in a large boarding house about block from the railroad station. Here he has passed the last four months at work upon his invention. His name is Webster Gillette, and he is from Michigan. A reporter found him seated in little room in which were three tables loaded with electrical apparatus, and network of wires stretched between the walls. The in- ventor appeared to be about forty years old. He has lively dark blue eyes, high forehead that bulges in the region of constructiveness, brown moustaches and side whiskers, and ruddy and healthful countenance.
 On the largest table in the room stood disk about thirteen inches in diameter. Pro- iecting from the center of one face of the disk was funnel-shaped object. Running into the table from the lower edge of the disk were number of wires. On the table, arranged in 8 TOW a short distance from the wire, were ten black cylindrical induction coils. That is what the reporter noticed. This the inventor said:
 "That funnel-shaped object in the center of the disk is the resonator. You see that it is not like the speaking tube of an ordinary 1SASEASASs R~~~S held to the mouth. The volume of the voice, instead of being concentrated in small space as in other telephones, is spread over, and causes the whole metallic di- aphragm to vibrate. You will notice on the opposite side of the disk there are ten deyia- ting points, which ara held in position by ten rubber arms, that may remind you somewhat of 8 cutie fish. When you talk through the speaking tube or resonator, the metallic di- aphragm, or, popularly speaking, the tin plate, .vibrates. The vibrations are commu- nicated to the ten deviatiug points. or nee dies. The needles penetrate through rubber cushions into small brass cylinders contain ing eranulated carbon. The cylinders ar- secured Tn their places by ten brass arms ate tachsd to the rim of the disk that holds the metallic plate. Ten wires run through the arms, form the primaries of the induction coils and return to their respective poles. Tho ten secondary wires from the induction coils gre carried to plug switch, so arranged as to place one or as many wires as may be desired in circuit. The power of ten batter ies ten induction coils, and corresponding number of deviating points, acted upon sim ultaneously by single vibrating tin plate, may thus be concentrated upon single w1re This is something that has never been done before.
 sT claim that conversation may be carried on over an ordinary telegraph wire with my telephone between points Z, 2,60o miles apart. Twelve words @ minute IS COn6lQ6r6Q 8 I81E rate of transmission over the Atlantic cable. By using this telephone 120 words 8 minute may be transmitted if shorthand writer is employed as 8 receiver. All the important features of my invention are new. By the use of the granulated carbon and the rubber cush- ions into which the needles penetrate se- cure g steady, uninterruptable sound"
 MT. Gillette went into an adjoining room, where he had another telephone connecting with the one on the table. The receiving tube of the new apparatus was put in posi- ton. After few minutes it began to emit series of distinct stHalloes'' in bass voice.
 After returning to the room Mir. Gillette said that ten batteries, ten deviating points, and ten induction coils have about six times the power of one battery and correspond ing number of the other necessary electrical agencies. He thought that the time was not remote when we could not only speak across the ocean, but also see those to whom we might be speaking. He said that an expert nent with the new telephone probably would be made in ten days between places in Maine and Massachusetts, 800 miles apart.