Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-10-26

To Telephone Across the Ocean Webster
GilIetts Apparatus to Increas" Trans
mitted Sound.

mitted Sound.
There is an inventor in the village
of Flushing. l.. l.. who believes he
has an apparatus that will revolu-
tionize the telephone business and
increase the usefulness of
the Atlantic cable. He has rooms
in a large boarding house about a
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 cleo
trical apparatus. and network of
wires stretched between the walls
The inventor appeared to be about
40 years old. He has lively dark
blue eyes, high forhead that bulg es
in the region of constructiveness.
brown mustache and side whisEers,
and ruddy and healthful counte
nance.
On the largest table in the room
stood disk about thirteen inches in
diameter Projecting from the cen
ter of one face of the disk was fun
nel-shaped object. Running into
the table from the lower edge Of the
disk was number of wires. On the
table, arranged in a row short dis
lance from the wires, were ten black
cylindrical induction coils That is
what the reporter noticed. This the
inventor said:
"That unnel-shaped object in the
center of the disk is the resonator.
You see that it is not like the speak
ing tube of an ordinary telephone.
The larger part of the funnel is held
to the mouth. The volume of the
voice, instead of being concentrated
in a small space as in other tele-
phones, is spread over and causes the
whole metallic diaphragm to vibrate.
You will notice on the opposite side
of the disk there are ten deviating
points, which are held in position by
ten rubber arms, that may remind you
somewhat of a cutie fish. When
you talk through the speaking tube
or resonator, the metallic diaphragm,
or popularly speaking, the tin plate.
vibrates. The vibrations are com
municated to the ten deviating points
or needles. The needles penetrate
through rubber cushions into small
brass cylinders containing granulated
carbon. The cylinders are secured
in their places by ten brass arms at
tached 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 The
ten secondary wires from the Undue
ton coils are carried to a plug switch
50 arranged as to place one or as
many wires as may be desired in cir
cult. The power of ten batteries,
ten induction coils. and correspond
ing number of deviating points,
acted upon simultaneously by a
single vibrating tin plate. may thus
be concentrated upon single wire.
This is something that has never
been done before.
Il claim that conversation may be
carried on over an ordinary telegraph
wire with my telephone bet ween
points 1000 miles apart. Twelve
words a minute is considered fair
rate of transmission over the Atlantic
cable. By using this telephone 12O
words minute may be transmitted
if a shorthand writer is employed as
a receiver. All the important fea-
lures of my invention are new. BY
the use of the granulated carbon and
the rubber cushions into which the
needles penetrate I secure a steady,
uninterruptable sound"
Mr.. Gillette went into an adjoin-
ing room, where he had another tele-
phone connecting with the one on
the table. The receiving tube of the
new apparatus was put in position.
After a few minutes it began to emit
a series of distinct "Halloes" in a
bass voice.
After returning to the room Mr..
Gillette said that ten batteries, ten
deviating points, and ten induction
coils have about six times the power
of one battery and a corresponding
number of the other necessary cleo
trical 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 expeli-
ment with the new telephone proba-
bly, would be made in ten days be-
tween places in Maine and Massa-
chusetts. 500 miles apart.
AT CAPE MAYA man left the surf
at Cape May, not long ago, aud
rushed up to the cottage in which we
boarded. They had fritters on the
table "Give me another clam frit-
ter" he said, after he had finished
the first. The plate was passed to
him. He took one, ate it and said,
Give me another clam fritter." He
got another and said, this time to the
Twill you please pass me
the clam fritters" Them amt,
clam fritters," replied the lady.
"Ain't clam fritters" gasped the
boarder. "No." "Then what are
they?' ''Corn fritters." ''Well, I'm
said the guest; Il ate
seven of them and thought they were
full of chopped CLANS" After lunch
con the landlady remarked to her
sister that the surf was such an ap-
petizing affair that corn could be
palmed off on bathers for chopped
CLAIMS, and that stewed tripe passed
for chicken fricassee, and that she
would make enough money this sea
son to take her to Europe in the win
ter.-tPuck.
The PLACE FOR TIRED MOTHERS
The manner of life of the country