Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-05
A PHONOGRAPH PARTY.
JOHN McCULLOUGH,s MAD RAW.
INGS REPRODUCED.
The Great Inventor Edison,s Idea of
an Invention to Revolutionize
Science and Labor.

A dispatch to the Cleveland Leader from
Akron, Ohio, dated few DAYS since. saws !.
At monograph party at the home of his
father-in-law. Lewis Miller. in this city last
evening Thomas A. Edison delighted a
number of Akronians with exhibitions
from his original experimental phouo-
graph. One of the little shells or phono-
grams, he used was put in motion and
gave through the funuel in distinctly aud
lble tones one of John McCuliough's
speeches in Bloomingdale Asylum. n
which be was confined up to the time of
MS death. By turns the poor man was
going through the most intensely tragic
lines from "Virginius;" by turns protesting
that he was not mad, and then breaking
out into a spasmodic maniacal laugh tn at
sent shiver through the listeners.
Mr.. Edison has been working with his
photograph by day and by night dur
ing his sojourn in this CITY, and
seems never to tire of operating it and dis
covering more and more about its properties
and possibilities. He says that one use to
which 1t will be put is assisting singers in
detecting their false tones. From the fact
lH-' TIC souiiu VI ner own VOICE comes to the
EAR OF THE SINGER
Partly through the medium Of the bones
OF the mouth and face there are liable To
be undecided false tones because of an i'm
perfect tooth or other defect. When the
monograph proneu nces the tones these in
dIylduallues OF the vibrations are elimi-
mated and the brain is enabled to analyze
the sounds into their components. 1t is
h ~ ,aftl h, l..
Sir William Thompson, the great English
scientist, wrote to Mr. Edison, makes it a
perfect elucidator of the mathematical con-
ception of sound
Being asked what he thought would be
the next field in which electrical invention
would employ itself, Mr. Edison said
F" Undoubtedly the next great discovery
will be some method of getting electricity
from coal direct without the intervention
of boilers to make steam, steam driven en-
glnes TO run dynamOs, which in their turn.
with the Intervention of magnetism, do
WORK, whether in operating motors or max
ing light. Such a contamination would
mean one bucket of coal furnishing one
morse power for ten hours day. As it is
now, 1t takes four or five buckets of coal
Tor one-horse power, whereas we ought to
get i've or six-horse power out of one
bucket: That is, we get or per cent. of
the units of force, whereas by
OBTAINING ELECTRICITY DIRECT
We should get rs per cent. But economy
OF coal IS not the great thing arrived at in |
with this coming discovery, al |
though that would be good deal in itself |
The thing good many men are working |
on-and have been doing good deal at !
It's to get some simple and inexpensive |
apparatus for applying the force that is in |
coal directly to the work it is to do. That |
would revolutionize the world of machines, |
for ii would do away largely with boilers |
and engines. No, it is nothing like what |
Kelley is after, because he is trying to get |
out of nothing. The thing |
speak Of is bound to be done"
+. Mr.. Edison has had one of his twenty
i've assistants, who are kept busy working |
out his ideas, at work in Akron expert !
menting upon current that shall run both |
arc and incadescent lights on the same cir
cult Though the results heretofore have |
not been thoroughly satisfactory, good pro- !
g-ess is said to have been made in these