Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-07
CLAIMED

For ahe Hm0TGant New Invention the
 PhonOgraph and GrapnOphone.
 In view of the important ute that will soon be made of the phonograph in this country, New Haven readers cannot fail to be inter ested in the following synopsis of the imme- diates practical business uses claimed for the phonograpH8 8Ad photograph graphophene:
 A memorandum of few of the immediate busineas uses of the phonegraph and phono- graph graphophone:
 For lawyers and business men, at their homes and offices, it is mechanical stenog- rapher, always at command. The cylinder, if the instrument be used at home, may be brought or forwarded to the user's office and there transcribed by the typewriter. Informal contracts may be perpetuated In the exact words and tones of the parties.
 Instructions to employees may be given without their actual presence.
 In doctors offices, patient calling during the physicians absence may verbally express his wishes into the instrument, to be heard only by the doctor on his return. The con- fidential character of the patients communi- cation is thus preserved.
 Photographic guarantees of the character Of goods sought to be sold may be given to and demanded by customers. $ Verbal representations by would be GUS toners may be perpetuated for use in ease of future disputes.
 Poor writers and poor spoilers are enabled to communicate by mail without the dis closure of their educational defects.
 Lawyers preparing briefs at their homes will find the photograph or phonograph- graphophone most essential.
 For authors, playwrights and ministers, and all others who have manuscripts to pre- pare, the instrument will prove most val- uable time saver. and they will readily be able to judge of the actual effect of their words upon their hearers.
 In newspaper offices especially the instru- nent will prove of great use. Most. if not all editorials and other matter may be dicta- ted and the cylinders used by the compos- itors without the necessity of reducing the subject matter to writing, and it will be par ticularly valuable as saver of time in the last hurried moments before the paper goes to press.
 Actors and theatrical managers will find it most advantageous in memorizing and in all the details of rehearsals.
 For use between an office and factory or between main and branch office there can be the ''daily cylinder, !" into which the diff ferent heads of departments speak their wants with greater particularly of detail than is possible through letter correspondence and such fsdaily cylinder" can be forwarded in the same manner as letter.
 All postofices should be supplied with one of these instruments to enable illiterare per sons to correspond-a reasonable toll being charged per phonogram. The receiver, if not possessing an instrument, may, by going to his postofice or to the company's agencies and paying few cents, use their machine for translating his cylinder. This applies more particularly to small country postofices, where the people in general are not in the habit of writing, owing to the lack of educa- tion and experience.
 Railroad managers and superiEtendents will find the invention very useful to trans init and receive quick communications when it is inconvenient to write or time is limited All orders to agents can be issued much more advantageously by phonograms than by the present system.
 Commercial travellers by using the public instruments, with which all hotels will be supplied, can, while on their trips, more con veniently, accurately and thoroughly com rnunicate with their principals l
 A beneficial field by means of these instru- ments will be thrown open to the blind, en- abling them to communicate readily with their distant friends.
 In the home circle recipients of promo grams may enjoy the pleasure of listening to the voices of their absent correspondents.
 Sayings of children and others may be per- petuated in the language and tones of the speakers.
 Music, vocal and instrumental, is reproduc- ed with perfect accuracy and the possessor enjoys a Emusic 6o1" with marvellous range of power.