Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-07-16
The Perfected Photograph.

Al iLy tAtiSiS tSu oEpt Nhuih-
Grated among the uses to which the
photograph would be applied: l.
Letter writing and all kinds Of dicta.
ton without the aid of stencgraph.
er. 2. Photographic books which
would speak to blind people withou,
effort on their part. 8. The teach.
ing Of elocution: a. Reproduction
of music. S. The Family Record"
"a registry of sayings, "reminiscences,
ETC., by members of family, in their
own voices, and of the last words of
dying persons. s. Music boxes and
toys. 7. Clocks that should an
nounce in articulate speech the time
for gong home, going to meals, etc.
8. The preservation of language, by
exact reproduction of the manner of
pronouncing. 9. Educational pur-
poses !: such as preserving the expla-
nations made by teacher, SO that the
pupil can refer to them at any mo.
ment, and spelling or other lessons
placed upon the phonograph for con-
venience in committing to memory.
10. Connection with the telephone,
SO as to make that invention an aux.
ilimy in the transmission af prema.
nent and invaluable records, instead
of being the recipient of momentary
and fleeting communications.
Every one of these uses the perfect.
ed photograph is now ready to carry
out. may add that, Though the ia
cility with which it stores up and ie-
produced music of all sorts, or whist
ling and recitations, 1t can be employ.
ed TO furnish constant amusement to
invaids, or to social assemblies, at re-
ceptions, dinners, etc. Any one sit
ting in his room alone may order an
. assorted supply Of wax cylinders in
scrlbed with songs, poems, piano or
violin music, short stores, anecdotes
or dialect pieces, and, by putting them
on his phonograph, he can listen to
them as originallyysung or reclted by
authors, vocalists and actors, or elo-
cutouists. The variety of entertain
a ments he, thus commands, at trifling
9 expense and without moving from his
! chair is practically unlimited Music
by band, in fact whole operas, can
be stored up on the cylinders, and the
e voice of Patti singing in England can
;, thus be heard again on this side the
K ocean, or preserved for future genera.
: tons.
For the present it has been decided
4 to make all the monographs of uni
form size; so that a record can BIZ
s put upon the machine in New Yorl
It may be placed on another machine o
! the same pattern in China, and speal
+ exactly as it was spoken to on thi
3. continent Each wax blank will re
10 ceive from 500 to 900 words; an,
n of course several blanks may be use,
:, for one document, if needed. Thi
q uniform size and pattern make tn
Of thing perfectly practicable in office
he which have business connections a
is over the globe. My private secretar
% to-day speaks all letters into phone
" graph, from which they are taken O
d by typewriter or ordinary long han,
writer, with an immense saving c
is time and trouble. Persons having
q large correspondence can talk all thei
h letters into the phonograph in yer
is short time, and leave them to be lis
tended to and copied by an assistant
Or without the delay involved in stenc
= graphy or the trouble of going owe
ID ID and correcting the copyist's worl
N which is almost inevitable under tn
ut conditions of dictation now prevail
t. ing. In fact, the phonograph will d.
3. and does at this moment accomplish
as the same thing in respect of converse
Sc ton which instantaneous photograph
es does for moving objects that is,
ne will present whatever it records wit
:, a minute accuracy unattained by an
th other means.
1t must be borne in mind that l al
go not talking now of things which ma
- be made possible in the future. | dl
- my'predicting ten years ago and Il
functions above mentioned are tho:
which the present perfected phone
graph is able to fulfill at this momen
>, To use the phonograph little instru
ton and practice are needed. b
much less than the typewriter requir
and hardly more than the trainir
needed for sewing machine
Thomas A. Edison, in North Amer
can.