Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-29
EDISON PHOTOGRAPHS A SOUND.
At Work on New monograph That is to
Revolutionize Office Work.

At Work on n New Photograph That Is to
Revolutionize Office Work.
New York World q
IL is some years since that bairel-Speak-
ing instrument, the photograph, ceased
to delight the country people at state
fairs, and proved an interesting sclen.
titc novelty to the cultivated in all the
cities OF the union. For five years the
phonograph has remained silent. Many
persons imagine that this ingenious fruit
of Edison's genius was supplanted by the
telephone. So it was in measure,
leading, as 1t did, to the telephones per-
fiction.
Greater things are in store for the pub
lie than the telephone by the wizard OF
Menlo park, Yesterday reporter for the
World saw the inventor of the electric
light seated at bench of wonderful ma
chinery with ingenious mirror appliances
attached to all points for concentrating
the rays of an electric light and throwing
them upon highly polished disk, tracing
thereby the minute waves of sound from
new cylindrical apparatus newly
constructed phonograph-and rejecting
them hundred-fold ampliled upon a
larger disk at distance of three feet
81 am now perfecting the phonograph,'
said he, as he looked up with a kindly
smile. 81 have done nothing to il since
1878. All my time since then has been
directed toward perfecting my light.
nave some time on my hands, and | have
resumed my study of the photograph.
No one has touched or sought TO make
auy use OF 1t. See here, | have Just made
photograph of the expression 'Ahpn
Here the inventor produced a strip of pa
per twenty-one feet long by two inches
wide, from one end OF which to the other
was continuous line of waves, making
one "wave sound.n "That is 'Ahliii
resumed 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 photograph ?"
"les, great one. intend TO make Il
of use for commercial purposes. IL will
be used for debating to. In offices IL will
take the place of stenogmphers, and BOYS
can use It. This is the machine am now
constructing. This photograph was com.
plete so far rs IL went, and gave satisfac-
tlsn TO all those who were then Interested
IN 1t, Its mission | am about TO demon
strate, The phonograph am building
viii have q tive-foot wheel to be driven
ny steam. me SOUND VIII be transferred
from the photograph TO wheel forty
times its diameter, making 1t forty times
louder than the human voice. Ii win
have afunnel thirty feet long. II win mt
Il ON top of this building clergyman 4
Co.'s, foot OF East Seycnteenthl, and Won
can hear 1t talk distinctly two blocks
away,
"This Is only to prove the perfection Of
my new machine. shall then construct
the new phonograph for Office use. N
will be seli-acting by spring. Bankers,
merchants, lawyers and editors can stand
up and speak TO it, or can reoline upon n
lounge, smoke their cigars and dictate ~
1t at their ease. All they have 70 do then
is 70 hand It TO the office boy, who. Inv
touching a spring, can make il talk hack
or repeat all that has been said IN n
which he can transcrbe at his VIII. N ne
misses anything he can spring IL bacE
when the phonograph VIII repeat II over
again. Whoever possesses one can tske
II home, and II a thought an idea. strikes
him he can instantly conade Il TO he mo-
nograph, and there IL Is for him uext f day
The stenographer is an expensive insti,y
ton In an office. This WIFI take his n,sco
as complete registering machine Y f''ss