Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-24
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A SOUND
At work on q New Photograph that is
TO RevOlutionize Office Work.
From he Neio YORK. World.

from me NeiC OFk W0Ft0.
It's some years since that barrel-speak-
ing instrument, the photograph, ceased
to delight the country people at State
fairs, and proved an interesting scientific
novelty to the cultivated in all the cities
OF the Union. For five years the phonO-
graph has remained silent. Many persons
imagine that this ingenious fruit of Edi-
sons genius was supplamted by the tele-
phone. So it was in measure, leading
as it did to the telephones perfection.
Greater things are in store for the pub
tic than the telephone by the wizard of
Menlo Park. Yesterday a reporter saw
the inventor Of the electric light seated at
bench OF wonderful machinery with
ingenious mirror appliances attached
20 all its points for concentrating the
rays Of an electric light and throwing
! them upon a highly polished disc, tracing
/ thereby the minute waves of sound from
new cylindrical apparatus-a newly
( constructed phonograph-and rejecting
them a hundred-fOld amplified upon a
/ larger disc at distance Of three feet.
/ Il am now pertecting the monograph"
| said he, as he looked up with a kindly
/ smile. II have done nothing to it since
/ 1873. All my time since then has been
| directed towards perfecting my light.
/ have now some time on my hands, and |
/ bdhH lteuuieu ulg hbhul VI Tue pNOnO-
! graph. No one has touched or sought to
make any use of it. See here, have just
made photograph of the expression
! Amp" Here the inventor produced a
strip OF paper 81 feet long by inches
wide, from one end Of which TO the other
was a continuous line Of waves, making
one "waye sound" "rhat is 'Ahp" re-
sumed the magician. "Of course, this is
only experimental, but the machine that
would produce that sound would be heard
five miles away distinctly"
"There is, then, an ultimate future for
the monograph
ayes, great one. / intend to make il
of use tor commercial purposes. II will
be used for debating TO. In Offices 1t will
take the place Of stenOgraphers, and boys
can use It. This is the machine am now
constructing. This phOnOgraph was COM
plete so far as it went, and gave satisfac-
tion to all those who were then interested
in 1t. Its mission ! am about TO demon
stTate. The photograph ! am building
will have a fye-foOt wheel, to be driven
10y steam. The sound will be transferred
from the photograph 10 wheel forty
times it's diameter, the sound thus being
amplihed forty times, making 10 forty
times louder than the human voice. IL
will have funnel 30 feet long. / viii
put IL on top OF this building Bergman a.
u
can hear il talk distinctly two blocks
away.
chs Is only 10 prove the perfection OF
my new machine. shall then construct the
new monograph for office use. ~ will be
| seli-acting, worked by "a spring. Bankers,
/ merchants, lawyers aud editors can stand
and speak % It, or can reclne upon a
\ lounge, smoke their cigars, aud dictate TO
/ 10 ~ their ease. All they have 90 DO then
/ is 10 hand h 10 the Office boy, who, by
| touching spring, can make u talk back
/ or repeat All that has been said 20 10, which
/ be can transcrbe az his VIII. N he misses
anything he can spring II back, when the
\ ph0nOgraph will repeat 10 over again.
I Whoever possesses one can take 10 home.
| aud NJ a thought, an idea strikes him. be
/ can instantly c0nnde it ~ the phOnograph.
/ and there 20 Is for him next day The
/ stenOgrnpher ia an expensive institution
/ Ia an Office. Tnis VIII take bis place as
I a complete registering machine"
John Henry pleaded with Amelia,