Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-09
!. IHE oRAPHopHonE.,
A Marvellous Machine That Talks and PER-
petuates Talk.

THE GRAPHoPHoNE.
A Marvellous Machine That Talks and Per.
petuates Talk.
The time has arrived when you can
talk and wrap up what you say in sheet
of paper, put a 2-cent stamp on it, send
IT to your friend, and he can unwrap it
and hear every word you said in exactly
thesame tone Of voice you used In dictat-
ing it. This is all possible, provided
you both own monographs, the new
machine that has made its advent in
Boston. ltlooks like sewing machine
1t runs noiselessly, by foot power, and
all you have to do is to talk to it,
through mouthpiece on the end OF
flexible rubber tube. You can talk as
fast as you like and as loud; you can
whistle, sing or furnish any kind OF
music, and the graphophone will take
it all down, and reproduce it every two
minutes for the next one thousand
years If you wish, each time accurately
in every syllable and tone, even to the
little peculiarities OF your diction.
The way it's done is this: Your voice
travels through the tube and agitates
an isinglass diaphragm at the end of it,
and the diaphragm gives motion to
needle, which records the sound
waves on little black cylinder or Hat
sheet of pasteboard OF wax and paraf-
fine. Then you hear it again by the
reverse process, the little recorded
wave travelling back again along the
tubes to your ears, both Of which it
enters by means Of the forked ends TO
the tube, which divides near the face
of the hearer and sends the sound in
both sides through little transmitters
which barely rest on the feshy part of
the ear. Two men can carry on dia-
logue with the same graphophone.
Thus lawyer could take deposition,
or newspaper reporter could perpe-
trate an interview and then send the
block cylinder up to the type-setter,
who could put it on his graphophone
and put it in type word by word, or
two words at time, or whole SEN
tence, just as he wished, for there is a
regulator to it; or the typewriter man
could reduce it to paper.
Two of the cylinders can be talked
to ON the same machine, and thus you
have one to send away and one to pre-
serve. Here are some of the things il
will do:
1t will preserve your wife's curtain
lecture when you have been to the club,
and you can sit down to the machine
and listen to it when you return about
two p. m. without causing your better
half the annoyance of sitting up to de.
liver it in person.
1t will enable you to hear the death,
bed remarks of a friend in his OWE
voice fifty years after he is in his grave
and your grandchildren, down to the
thirtieth generation, can hear youl
parting words in the same way.
| 1t will take mans will in his owr
voice and words, and when it is pre-
scented to probate, it will be its owr
witness.
1t will give you PATHS singing OIL
Edwin Booths oratory or the dulce
melody of the bewitching hand-orgar
that plays up by the Common, and yor
can hear it all in your own house, ant
when you feel lonely you can send ou
to the nearest graphophone store and
buy couple of dozen good stories OF
| cylinders and hear your graphophont
relate them.
And this is only part. Reader, us,
your own imagination. Ifyou' We CIR
that is somewhere else, just think o
her voice coming to you over the rail
saying, Don't fiirt, Hannibal. Ani
think what terrific dunning letters yor
could write! What seedlings you
could transmit by mail in all tn,
grandeur of your own voice!
Well, this machine has come t.
Boston. 1t is the result of the agil,
ingenuity of Prof. Charles Sumne
fainter A company has been organ
lied, and the machine is being put Oh
the market, and is already in use il
many places.
Then again a newspaper man cal
connect his graphophone with the tele
phone and send in a long special, whicl
can be taken on another graphophon
at the other end of the line.
Besides this it will record a numbe
of voices speaking at the same time
A reporter talked into graphophon
and the graphophone talked back il
his own voice and the voice of othe
people, and sang to him and whistles
and gave a hand-organ sonata at tn
office of the Boston agent.
There is an invention being perfecte
to go with the graphophone. 1t is
jet of water receiver, which will tax
all the voices in circle of thirty-on
feet, thus doing away with the speak
ing tube. The pasteboard cylinders c
the graphophones hold about thir
of column of language, and COS
about three cents. They come i
smaller pieces. So one can write
letter on the graphophone and it wi
cost him less than stationery.-B
AduertiSer.