The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-03
n oRAPHOPHONE.
A Marvellous Machine That Talks and Per.
etuat0S Talk.


The time has arrived when you car
talk and wrap up what You say in asheet
Of paper. put a 2-cent stampO IN it. SEND
it to your friend. and he unwrap i,
and hear every word you said in exactly
the same 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. 1t looks like Il sewing machine.
1t runs nOiselessly. by foot power. and
all you have to do is to talk to it
through a mouthpiece on the end of q
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
1t 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 a@itates
az isingiass diaphragm n. the end of it.
and the diaphragm gives motion to
Il needle. which records the sound
waves on a little black cylinder or ii 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 nearer and sends the sound in
both sides through little transmitters
which barely rest ON the fieshy part of
the ear. Two men a carry On II dia-
lOgue with the same sraphOphOne.
Thus a lawyer could take Il deposition,
or Il newspaper reporter could perpe-
trate an interview and then send the
block cylinder up TO the t~ype-setter.
who could put it on his graphOphOne
and put it in type word by word. or
two words at a time. Dr. a whole SEN
tence. just rs he wished. for there is a
regulator to it: or the typewriter Ia
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 it
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
aud 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 friend in his own
voice fifty years after he is in his grave.
and your grandchildren. down to the
thirtieth generation, can hear your
words in the same way.
Il will take a mans will in his own
vOice and words. and when it is pre-
,ented to probate, it will be its own
witness.
1t will give you PATHS singing Or
Edwin Booths oratOry Or the dulcet
Of the bewitching h~and-Organ
hat plays up by the Common. and you
hear it all in your W house. and
vhen you feel lonely YOU ri send out
O the nearest graphOphOne store and
,uy a couple Of dozen good stories on
'ylinders and hear your graphOphOne
'elatc them.
And this is only u part. Reader. use
own imagination. KyOu've girl
hat is somewhere else. just think Of
Ter voice coming 10 you owe the rail.
Don't tirt. Hannibal" And
hink what terrific dunning letters you
Ould write! What seedlings You
Ould transmit by mail in all the
,randeur of Your W voice!
Well. this machine has come to
1t is the result Of the agile
ingenuity Of Prof. Charles Sumner
A company has been organ
zed. and the machine is being put on
he market. and is already in use in
many places.
Then again a newspaper man can
his graphophOne with the telc-
hone and send in a long special. which
be taken on another graphophOne
I the other cad of the line.
Besides this it will record a number
t voices speaking at the same time.
! reporter talked into graphophOne
nd the .raphophOne talked back in
is own voice and the voice of other
and sang to him and whistled
nd gave a h~and-organ sonata at the
flee of the Boston agent.
There is an invention being perfected
} go with the graphOphOne. 1t is Il
It of water receiver. which will take
II the voices in Il circle OF thirty-One
,et. thus doing away with the speak
,g tube. The ~pasteboard cylinders of
ne graphOphones hold about a third
I a column of language. and cost
bout three cents. They come in l
pieces. So one can write Il I
.tter on the graphOphOne and it will ,
Dst him less than statiOnery.-BOs:On ]
drertiser. {
A Belfast Me-. woman has found ,
way to dispose of money with holes I
in IL She recent.v offered .