Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Wonderful Discovery OF Fort Worth
Scientist Described.
The Airy Thoughts in the Human Mind
Transferred to Paper,
The STRIDES OF Science 0vertahing the
Criminals and Assisting the
industrious.

ton follows another in this inventive
age Is so great that the chronicler OF
events has time to but notice the
more important triumphs of genius,
and those only in an imperfect man.
ner. Texas will soon be the rival OF
the New England states in inventive
genius and grand results, The broad
prairies and the enormous extent of
our surroundings seem to inspire the
mind with sublime ideas, which the
dwarfed confines Of the populous
cities cannot foster nor produce. The
last wonderful invention is by citi-
zen of Fort Worth, whose name for
special reasons is withheld but who Is
well known throughout the United
States as an electrician and scientist of
the highest order. The result of eX-
periments and tests with various forces.
compounds. chemical properties and
ingenious mechanical devices made by
and known only to the inventor is
what he calls psychoelectrograph
which, ms the word suggests, means
simply photegraphing the thoughts az
they fit through the brain. STARTLING
though this may appear, 1t Is no more
wonderful than were the first efforts of
Daguerre, Wedgwood. Draper, Archer
and Fry, or the later Improvements
of Obernetter and Bartholomew in
photography nor of the process which
secures the picture of horse
running at full speed, a
bird in fight or of any
moving object. For one uninltiated
in the mysteries of the discovery 1t IL
| impossible to understand the process,
much less explain il on paper so that
| the public may have an intelligent
conception Of its workings. The best
that can be expected Is n description
of what came under the notice of the
reporter rs IL appeared to him, and of
| the results which soon anyone Will be
permitted to see. Being personal
friend of the gentleman and after
promising to withhold his name, Il
GAZETTE reporter was admitted into
his laboratory, where he found n hete-
rogeneous mass of drawings, chemi'
Gals, astronomical and electrical in
| struments and other helps TO science
which have not yet even received a
name, piled all around the room. The
artist was mixing chemicals which
emitted fearful odor as the reporter
entered and for long time he had tc
wait before he could attract the gen
tleman's attention from his absorbing
studies. Finally he looked up and
seemed TO return to the things o
earth and accosted the reporter with {
pleasant smile.
hYou think you would like TO wit
ness the result of my invention ~ sale
he, extending his hand and graspint
the reporters firmly. well / doub
II you will be able to understand 1t al
in one day. have been for two year
engaged on il, and have only reached
partial perfection so farm fact,
cannot say just where my researches
are going TO end"
Cant you give me brief histor,
of it from its incipicncy upto the pres
ent time, and as far rs you have ac
complished positive results?"
He studied u while, then suddenly
replied: Eyes, sit down on that box
You see we are not very well fixed NJ
here, but sit down and make yoursel
as comfortable as you can. The ide!
of imprinting thoughts direct from TIN
brain and dispensing with the medium
of speech first suggested itself TO M
when ] was dong what you are trying
to do now, trying to keep up with
rapid talker with pencil. Ineve
liked short hand. IL was too much of
drudgery, and when one IL compelle,
to rewrite his notes before they will b
of any use to himself or any one els
II is positively slavisb.n
The reporter fully agreed with hin
in this.
~ took up the idea that the mind
though invisible, is real tangibl
something. not TO the outward sense
of course, but science recognizes TN
presence of bodies which can neithe
be seen nor felt, and therefore tn
mind can exist without manifestinj
itself to the touch or sight. 1t GER
tainly has the power TO control tn
tongue, locomotion and the movemen
of any portion of the body; we all ad
nit this. Crush out or destroy tn
mind, or the soul II you please, an,
the body is immovable; not because !
has necessarily lost any Of its strength
since the same muscles and tendon
remain, but because IL has lost tn
controlling power to enforce obedienc
the engine Is still there, but the fir
Is out and the boiler Is dry. Now
there are many things more sensitiv
than the human sense of touch, or {
sight, but they must be furnished b
artificial means and not by natura
Mind you, I am not warning againi
nature, nor attempting to improy
upon the works of the Greater, but
simply aim to develop and give fore
to those latent powers and blessing
which have been vouchsafed us, an
which are co-existent with men, bt
not understood. The secret Of my IL
vention Is, like most inventions, quit
simple, but am not yet prepare
to make 1t public. It
in the selection and prepar
ton of surface sufficiently sensiti'
to receive and sufficiently durable
retain the impress Of insubstanti
substances, II you permit the ambiO
oauy. have prepared disc-sever
kinds of them, In truth-and whe
prepared ! place 1t In glass glob
through which runs wire connectir
with the disc. The globe is then he
metically sealed and by the asslstan'
of an air pump-but come here and
: will demonstrate as go along" sal
he, leading me over to the other en-
., of the room and unwilling q glol
arranged after the fashion Of tho
!. used in schools and connected at val
d Gus places with myriad OF fine co
8; per and platina wires. "Here, by Il
ID aid of this pump, exhaust the a
y entirely from the globe so the pr
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