Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-23
rpIioN PHOTOGRAPHS A SOUND.
At WORK on a New Photograph that ID to
Rsyolutlonizs "fiice work.
Ss,r York UErLI


NslF York Htrli.
1t is some years since that barrel speak
ing instrument, the photograph, ceased to
delight the country people sc State fairs,
and proved an interesting scientific novelty
TO the cultivated in all the cities Of the
Union. For five years the photograph
has remained silent. Many persons lmag-
inc that this Ingenious fruit OF Edison s
genius was supplsnted BY the telephone.
So it was in q measure, leading as 1t did to
the telephones perfection. -.
Greater things are in store for the puohc
than the telephone by the wizard OF Menlo
Park. Yesterday reporter saw the In
ventor Of the electric light seated at q
bench OF wonderful machinery with inge-
nious mirror appliances attached to all It's
points tor concentrating the rays OF an
electric light aud throwing them upon q
highly polished disc, tracing thereby the
minute waves o. sound from new eyhu-
drlcal spparatus-s newly constructed pho
nolraph-apd rejecting them hundred.
Told smpli6ed upon a larger disc at dis
Isncs of three feet. -,
Il sm now perfsctiDg the phonogrsph,
said he. as he looked up with q kindly
smile. Il have done nothing to it since
1878. All my time since then has been
directed towards perteetiug my light. |
have now some time on my hands and l
nave resumed my study of the phonograph
No one has touched or sought TO make any
use Of it. See here, | have just made q
photograph of the expression All! Here
the inventor produced q strip Of paper Il
teet long by inches wide, from one end
of which to the other was continuous line
of waves, making one wave sodnd.
That is 'AhP" resumed the magician
"Of course this is only experimental, but
the machine that would produce that
,ound would be heard FIVE miles away dis
tinetly."
There is, then, an ultimate future for
the photograph?
YES, a great one. intend to make 1t
of uss for commercial purposes. IL will be
used for d. tating purposes. In offices II
Rill take the place OF stenographers, and
BOYS can use it. This is the machine am
nov constructing. This photograph was
com olete 80 far as it went, and gave salts
faction to ali those who were the interested
INT. Its mission am about TO demon
strste. The photograph ] sm building
will have a fye.ioot wheel, to be DR. ven by
steam. The sound will be transferred
from the monograph to wheel forty times
It's pismeter, the sound thus being smpi
fed forty times, making it forty time loud
or than the human voice. IL will have 8
funnel thirty feet long. ] will put IT on
top of this building-( Bergman 4 Co.'S
,ot of East Seventeenth and you can
hear it talk distinctly two blocks away
This is only to prove the perfection OF
nv new machine. shall then construct
the new photograph for Office use. twill
be selEacting, worked BY spring. Bank
ers, merchants, lawyers and editors can
stand up and speak to it, or can recline
upon 8 lounge, smoke their cigars, and
dictate to it at their ease. All they have
70 do then is to hand it to the Office boy,
who, By touching s spring can make II
talk back or repeat sll that has been said
to it. which he can trsnscribe at his will.
If be misses anything be can spring 1t back,
Ehen the photograph will repeat it over
again. Whoever possesses one can take
it home and if thought, an idea strikes
him, he can instantly eondde it to the
phonograpb, sld there it is for him next
day. The stenogrspher IS an expensive
institution in sn Office. This will take
his place as q complete registering ma
chine.