The sun., 1889-02-05
PRICE TWO CENTS.
A CONCERT BY TELEPHONE.
DELfGH7ING a PHILADRLPFTLA AUDI
ENCE NTH MUSIC IN NEW RORK.
Cornet solos and Soprano So.gs Rendered.
by Phonograph and Telephone 100 1EDes
Away, and Repeated Hack to New YORK..

Coinet solos and Soprano tso-gs Rendered.
by Phonograph and Telephone 100 ,anes
Away, and Repeated Back to New Ycrh.
trial OF the photograph in connection
with tho long-distance telephone was made
last night between tho Franklin Institute in
Philadelphia and tho operating room OF the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
at ls Cortlandt street. w. J. Hammer OF Mr..
Edison's laboratory in Orangega a lecturobe,
fore between six and seven hundred people az
the Institute, the subject OF which was Mr..
Edson's life and inventions. Tho lecture waS
illustrated with experiments. OF which tho coma
bined trial Of the photograph with tho long,
distance telephone was the chief.
T.Wangemen, also OF Mr.. Edison's laboratory.
was master of ceremonies at Is Cortlands
street. He began by explaining that the
metallic circuit Of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, which is superior to
any other in existence. and. by the way, would
be great Improvement to our present local
telephone service, was connected with carbon
transmitter whose sounds were heard at the
Franklin Institute through chalk receiver.
BY the time he had finished his explanation. Cor.
netist Theodore Hoth and Miss Efle Stewart,
soprano of st. Patrick's Cathedral. arrived
and prepared to play and sing to an audience
100 miles distant. Although his auditors
Souiuh eoo nlul, hOlu WOTo 8V6uInR
dress. He first played to a phonograph alone.
a ro tSs sSsa
he had finished, Mr. Wangemen ; said ADJ II " had
been heard all over the franklin Institute.
with Mi,S which z. he was In communication.
niSt: He sonplied; but stter , she M haa Snishea
through the telephone she complained that
81 she hsd sung it in the wrong n key End CHANGED
dersd With ST such Spirit that the audience e'h IL
Philadelphia. according to Mr.. WanGemen,
propounced reno it very fine:
the TRANSMITTED and the air Herr Hoth had
blown 1ao, into it. was telephoned to the Franklin
listened with unconcealed delight to the phono.
Whe Mss StsWnr sang and the phonograph
held forth those present closed one ear and lis.
tened, with the other at the telephone to the
sounds as they were reproduced in the Frank.
lin Institute. These sounds had been received
in monograph at the Institute and when it
were at Telephones could hear the music which
had been played IN their presence half an
hour. more or loss; before, repeated exactly at
Philadephia, but sang . Entreaty for tho ben-
"Bingen on the Rhine" which Mr.. Edison had
spoken into the phonograph in Orange yester-
telephone to the franklin Institute, where is
excited great enthusiasm.
with Re H1s rsedeon Rs
catcher" through the telephone.
The concert was listened to by others besides
individuals whose, wires are connected with 18
Cortlandt street having been notified to keep
'hslr faFS fhe audience in
Franklin institute Hall In this CITY. In Seventh
street above Chestnut. packed the house to tho
doors and heard cornet solo performance in
New York which was transmitted through the
long-distance telephone over 1O3 miles OF wire,
notes were rather sharp and METALLIC. buSS
clear and distinct, and oyery note and variation
soo Miss o ths
York Cathedral. sang. but her song was not 80
ees ana Thes
to tho 'Gpho3ne in New York. which was a sue.
times from the same roller in the New York
monograph, and the third performance was al
Then phonoeraph was attached to tho tele, /
phone at this end of the line, and the cornet !
solo T from the nbo4ograph at the New York end |
strument was then disconnected and the long |,
funnel was inserted in the nhonoGraph and tho
audience at fourth hand. having been played I
llrst IN. into the nhonograph, then transmitted
listeners in the hall. Tho receiver was held !
close TO the long funnel when the. music wa4 /
as did tho phonoSrapb.
Other successes were made with the phono.
graph In which music and words bottled up iu
ii several weeks ago were faithfully recorded
and liberated again. Tho same cylinders can
be used for u number of times. piano and
cornet duet was played. and speaking doll
into whose internal mechanism a small phoa
nograph had been introduced talked.
were exhibited 10y Mr.. Hammer. and they wer9
reproduced in large drawings which were used
In illustrating and explaining the lectur8.
which was II technical description OF each.
Many OF the instruments shown are to be used
al Paris this summer