The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-03
WONDERFUL EDISON.
He Tells of Yet More Wonderful Things
that He IS TO Bring Forth.

that He Is TO 6rin2 Forth.
From The Courier des Etats Uafs.
The reporter asked Mr.. Edison if it was true
that he had invented machine by the aid of
which man in New York would be able to see
everything that his wife was doing in Paris.
4 don't kn ", said Nr. Edison, laughing,
that that would be real bsuefit to humanity.
The women certainly would prot st. But, speak
Ing seriously, / am at work on an Invention
winch VIII allow man in Wall street not only
to telephone TO a friend in the Central park,
but to see that friend while he is chatting tele-
phonically with him. This invention would
be US full and practical, and / see no reason
why It should not soon become a reality, and
one OF the first things that l shall do when l
get back to America will be TO set up this con
trivance between my laboratory and my tele-
phone workshops. Moreover, l have already
obtained salts actOry results in reproducing i'm
ages at that distance which is only about 1000
feet. II would be ridiculous to dream of seeing
any one between New York and Paris. The
round form Of the earth, if there were no other
olincnlty IN the way, would make the thing i'm
possible.
Speaking Of the photograph. the reporter
asked # It had reached its highest degree of
perfection.
almost, think" said Mr.. Edison lin the
last instruments turned out of my workshops.
You must know that the ordinary photograph
employed in commerce does not beg to COM
pare with the la est machines that use in my
private experiments. With the latter can OBJ
tain sound powerful enough to reproduce
PHRASES Of sp .ech that can be beard perfectly
by larse audience. Ny last authorizations
we're with the asprate sounds. which are the
weak point OF tie graphophone. For seven
months worked from eighteen to twenty hours
day upon the single sound spec!a'
woul say to the Instrument 'specia,' and it
would always say pecia, and coudnt make
it say anything else 1t was enough to
make me crazy. But l stuck to it until l sue
ceeded, and now you can read 1000 words OF a
newspaper at the rate Of $50 words a minute,
and the instrument will repeat them to you
without an omission, You can imagine the
difficulty of the task that a complishe when
tell you that the impressions made upon the
cylinder are not more tlan one-milonth part
OF an inch Ia depth, and are completely in
vlsib G even with th t4ld of microscope"
Reporter-And what new discoveries viii be
made in electricity?
Mr.. d iiSon-Ah, that would be difficult to
say. We may some day come upon one of the
great secrets OF nature. | am always on the
lookout for something which may help me to
solve the problem of navigating the air. l have
worked hard upon this subject, but | am very
much discouraged. We may find something
new before that comes; but That will come
r, Edison further said that the great q vel
opment of electricity will come when we find
a more econo meal method of producing it,
During his trip across the ocean he remained
for hours on deck looking a: the waves. and he
S iys that it ma 10 him Wild when he saw
much force going to waste. But one of these
days" he continued 1--WE will chain all that
the falls of Niagara well the Withstand
that will be the millennium of electricity"