The evening world., 1888-05-12

FROM THE PHoNoaRAPH TO THE TYPEWRITER.
! should not wish to be understood as asserting,
graph can reproduce In all Its splendor the playing
Of q master: The fact that you hear the notes
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seems to set 1t of ut q slight distance, although 1t
remains acutely distinct-give1 Just a suggestion OF
from q barrel-orRan, because you are able 10 dis
tinguish in the photograph reproduction the effect
could mistake this sound for one not produced by
actual fingers on the keyboard In the original
playing.
REPRODUCING A ooRNET SOLO.
The most striking musical experiment, however,
was that of q cornet solo played in front of the
transmitter and recorder. The Phonograph took
wards warbled 1t all out so clearly that the brazen
tones were heard throughout the room. A quartet
cello was then tried with good success, the blended
voices especially coming out with q hne result.
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considerable success. There is no doubt in my
nish u vast deal of amusement and pleasure to In
valids. the occupants of hospitals and asylums. the
blind and people who for any reason are forced to
Yes" SAID Nj. Edison. .'the photograph win
reproduce orchestral pieces, and can be made IN
solos Of famous singers"
But, !" II was suggested. "while that is Ger:
an Amusement. Is the photograph, even as now
perfected. anything more than q popular toy 2"
WHAT MR.. EDISON PROMISES.
"As to that. I" was the reply, ..even q toy may
II may represent Q great deal Of ingenuity and
labor and become the basis OF an extensive popular
, nMrna.s: 81 s q ,d the RHG %"y msa Is not J limited .ssI TO IN, me
way, and 1 will show you one of Its chief practical
We went down to the business ONCE and there
sat q secretary debating correspondence into the
phonograph, which q typewriter, his machine
moments Afterwards by iistening to the cylinder
record and simultaneously taking 1t down by the
'P%:Xi our business correspondence is carried on
showed the letters as typed on by the listener at
plicated matters and included elaborate estimates
Tor electric light and other Manufactured articleh
the copyist, Z" he said. "T6ey have not
got to be together at the same moment. can die
tate whenever IL Ia moet convenient and leave the
comes to the ONCE. It all comes ont perfectly
clear, and there Is scarcely any correction Of the
to have a man who understands stenography, be-
cause the copyist hears the words Just as we speak
them; and the PhonogrsRn, oy pressing y one Q n w KEY;
tho copyist Ii ready, or by pressing another key he
can make the machine repeat as often as he wants
anything that he doesn't understand at nrst"
EFFEor ON sTESoGRAPHERs.
"won't thst hurt stenographers IN their busi-
ness and give cheap typewriting operators q prefer
ence over skilled ones ?" l inquired.
"No, intelligent copyists Will always be In de-
mand, to work in connection with the pnOnograph.
Stenography will not be needed 30 much. But an
intelligent machine Is not gong to hurt intelligent
laboIers or employees Don't you remember the
history Of the splnning-Jenny and Whitney's cot
ton gin, and how those machines gave employment
TO more hands, instead OF hrowing people out of
work? The monograph, by facilitating business,
will, II anything, open the door for more and more
skilled operators and copyists, to meet the rush Of
new demands created by the Improvement. That's
the way these things always work."
Another application. OF tue phonoRraph was men,
toned, viz. that II wouli De used for recording
private memoranda and business or other confer
ences where the presence of u 3 enogr apber Ii not
desired. '1hese wax blanks, containing the
memoranda, can be slipped on the cylinder and
kept for reference, I" said Mr.. EdisoR. - We have
got q process, too, Of reproducing them TO any
amount from . single talking. The original cylinder
or the copies may be mailed anywhere, supposing
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