The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-12
THE NEW TELEPHONE
WHICH, EHE y. . 0. RAILRoAD 60,
Has Purchased from the German PNtantSs,
and I. Testing on it's WirsS-1alhing from
Baltimore to OhiUPgO with q Lis
tensr Hers-ItS Advantage

Not long ago the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company, or some ofthe leading
men interested in its management, pur-
chased the American patent on a tele-
phone said to be OF German invention,
for which great advantages are claimed
over all existing instruments for the trans
mission OF sound. Chief among It's good
points is alleged to be that 1t is in no de-
gree or sense an infringement Of the Bell
telephone, except on the general ground
that it. employs magnetic electricity for
the transmission Of the sound waves.
Other advantages glSimed are the ease and
facility with which 1t transmits sounds TO
great distances, and the fact that 1t can be
used over telegraphlC current without
interfering with the transmission Of mes
ssges by the Morse telegraph. To accom-
plish this seems like miracle, but 1t Ia
asserted that the claim stands the most
deCisiVe test-RCtual experiment. The
instrument is also alleged to be more SIM
pls than uny other telephone apparatus yet
devised,
The Baltimore & Ohio Company has
been making q great secret Of its expert
ments, presumably "laying low" until
some decision is reached in the courts in
relation to the validity Of Bells patent on
the transmission OF sound by electricity,
The name OF the inventor could not be
learned, and much that Is said about the
instrument Is the result Of guessing from q
few facts acCidently discovered,
Recently expeIimenters came here from
Baltimore. So unobtrusiVe was theil
coming, and their operations here, thai
they eludOd the newspaper men, and II
was not until last evening that any intima
ton OF il was obtained. IT was asserted
thai additional experiments were made
Yesterday, but no confirmation OF this re-
port could be- obtained, II Is known,
however, that short time ago two cleo
triCiRns came on from Baltimore and spent
several days here and at BelRire, most OIL
the local tests being made at Bellaire
They mad with them two OF the new tele'
phones. One OF these was attached here
10 the telegraph wire, and the other in the
same manner at Bellaire. In this way
communication was opened between Bal
timore and Chicago, where instruments
were also attached 10 the wires, which
with another at Newark, Ohio, gave five
men access to the wire, and these all joined
In conversation which 1t is asserted was
carried on with rs great ease and satislaC
ton as II all had been in one room. ''.''
The eKperimenters here were delighted
with the results, and enthusiastically de-
Clared that this telephone would not only
monopolize the market and drive Bell'f
out OF use, but would eventually super
sede the telegraph fol the transmission Of
all kinds Of messages. They expressed then
belief that it would be practicable to talk
from America to Europe by means OF the
Atlantic cables,
Employees OF the company here were
cautioned Atrictly not to say anything
about the visit or its object, especially I'd
representatives OF the press. So far ~
known they have Obeyed this injunction
The facts obtainable about the instru'
ment are few. 1t consists OF q trausmittel
and q receiver. The latter is movable and
Is adjusted to the ear and held in the hand
like the Bell transmitter. The mechanism
is hidden, but a jar or smart rap upon the
box gives out metallic ringing sound,
The transmitter Is box, much larger than
the Bell, and is affixed TO the floor or q low
platform, requiring the talker to stoop ovel
1t when talking. Doubtless this Is only
for convenience OF moving, and the trans
mitter will be fastened to the wall when
desired to be permanent. The diaphragm
| Ia OF COniCal shape, the apex or point up
ward, and is composed Of very tlne white
wire, close together. This is probably
aluminium. The ends enter large horse
shoe magnet through which current pas
SEES from a battery.
II half that is said about the instrument
is true, it makes . decided advance In the
perfection OF the telephone,