The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-13
wosnsRruL THINGS COMING.
kaisou raiks Of the Inventions That
the World 80 ec sex>

ts~Aricr the> klafs l els
The repSster askesi Mr.. Esdson n il
ws~ true that he had invented a ma
chine by The All ~ which man in
New Yerk would be sole 10 see every
thing tAst his wife was doing IN PARKS.
Il don't know" said Mr.. Ellison,
laughing. that that would 10 a real
. beasiit 10 humanity. The women GER
tainly would protest Hut, speaking
seriously. am at work on an inven-
ton which viii allow man in Wall
street not only to telephone 10 friend
In the Central park. bat Ia see that
friend while he is chatting telephonic-
ally With him. This invention wonld
De uSeiai ard practical. and I see no
reason shy u should not soon become
= reality. and one os the first things
that shall 90 when | mt hack 10
America will he 10 set up this con-
trlvanee between my laboratory and
nay telephone workshops. Moreover,
have already obtained satisfactory
results in reproducing images at that
distance. which j. only atont 100
feet. IL world he ridiculous ~ dream
Of seeing any one between New York
and Paris. The round form Of the
earth, IL there were ne ether difficulty
IN the WAY, wotId make the thing im-
possible.
Speaking Of the phonograph. the re-
porter asked if il had reached the
highest degree 81 perfection.
Almost. think. said Mr.. Edison,
in the last instruments turned cut
Of my workshop. You must know
that the ordinary phonograph em-
h.
compare with the latest machines that
use in my private experiments.
With the latter ! can obtain sonnA
powerful enough 10 reproduce phrase
i OF a speech that can be heard Der
fectiv by large audience. Ny last
anelioraiions were with the aspira9u
Sounds, which are the weak points al
the grsphophone. Eur seven months ]
, worked from eighteen 10 twenty
| hours a day upon the instrument
'specia.' and II would always say
'pecia,' and ] couldn't mako 70
say anything else. IL was enough
to make ma crazy. HIT I ssuk
~ 1t unul succeeded. and ncw
you can read thousand words %
! newspaper az the rate OF 10 words q
! minute, and the instrument vii repeat
them 10 yon without omission. You
can imagine the difficulty IT the task
THAI ! accomplished when ~ ycu
that the impressions made Upon ose
cylinder are not more thar onemil-
lionsh part OF an inch in depth asd
are completely invisible, even Nth tbs
aid ~ Il microscopes,
Reportsr--And what neS ahccvcr-
les will be made Ia electricity
Mr.. Edison All. that would be dR.
dcult io say. We may some day come
upon one of the great secrets of ma
tur.. am always ON the lookout for
something which all help me Ia
solve the problem 90 navigating the
AIR. l have worked hard upon this
subject bat | am very much aiscour-
aged. We may End something new
before that comes bat 10 ~iu come.
MIR. Edison further said that the
great development NJ elesffity viii
come y hen xe fad a more economical
methsd of producing ~ Daring his
trip across the ocean he rem aimed Tor
hours ON deck looking at Size waves.
snd he saws ~ male him Wild vhen
he saw -o much force going "a waste.
but one Of these days" he contin-
pe,i. we will chain all that-the falls
~ Niagara a. well a. the winds-and
that wtil he the millennium of eisc-
triciiy.