The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
TALKING MACHINES.
THE GRAPHoPHONE IN ACTUAL USE
AND DOING GOOD WORK,
The Opinion of a Gentleman Who EN-
ploys One at His work-It Is Superior
to the Stenographer In Some Ca-es-How
1t Is Run-Six Minutes Solid T>lk.

ploys One at His work-It Is Superior
to the stenographer In Some Cares How
1t Is Run-six Minutes Solid T-lk.
Any one who doubts the usefulness of
the photograph or graphophone both
devices now being under the same man
agement and both presen''ro the best
features of the separate d
and Edison, needs but to W. ."r.rss
a few Wall street law offit .a.r
be convinced that the tall -u r,
by whatever name it is ca l.a.,
to stay. 1t is in daily use c-d,.
Brayton Ives, Sweet & Co bl...
and in many other less prominent houses.
The real business in talking machines,
however, has not yet begun. Such in
struments as are to be found in use are
owned by persons interested in the COM
pany. None are to be sold They will
be rented at $40 a year upon the same
system as that adopted by the telephone
people.
NO MORE PUNCH AND JUDY.
"There you see it," said this gentle
man, lifting cover about half the size
| of sewing machine cover from cor
ner of his desk. 1T takes up no room
and is always ready to take dictation."
| The graphophone is about the size of
sewing machine, which it slightly re-
sembles. A cylinder of hardened wax
Is revolved by small electric motor con-
nected with battery if there is no cleo
trio current at hand. In the Mills build
ing the motor is run by wire from the
electric lamp, with which the offices are
supplied. The principle of the apparatus
is still that of the old Edison photograph
of 1875. The sound of the voice causes
minute diaphragm bearing fine
needle point on its under side to vibrate.
AS wax cylinder ten inches long and
two inches in diameter revolves, the
needle point indents the wax according to
the vibrations of the diaphragm, making
a long spiral line around the cylinder,
which, as it revolves, travels from right
to left. In order to get reproduction
OF sound species of sounding board Is
adjusted, and the needle is made to pass
again over the indentations it has made
As it scrapes along the sounding" dia-
phragm gives forth a reprod> ,tion, more
or less perfect, of the original words
talked into the instrument. In the first
Edison monograph of twelve years ago
the instrument gave out a caricature of
what was said to it; If one knew what
had been said OF sung into it it was easy
enough 10 make sense out Of the phono-
graphs -. and Judy talk, but not
other Ranges have been in
the rowing the quality of
the 5tmctnesS, rather
tn; may be heard to-
a. message or repro
d, Il than one from
It order and under
!. And when the
j it talks very well.
sTENoGRAPHY.
Il has been there
ntinued the lawyer.
t...ys of labor When
.,,e brief or con-
- little spring, which
..-,.lry in motion; but so
loA. on. :. /, LAT unless you put your
ear Cos u tie motor you cannot hear It
at all. / ,lle this phone or mouthpiece
and tall into it just as would do with
telephone, using my natural voice, and
talking just as fast as please, which
you cannot do with telephone. If the
machine is allowed to run, the cylinder
will be used up at the end of six minutes,
but whenever come to the end OF a
paragraph want to think moment, or
whenever am interrupted touch stops
it. In this way a cylinder represents
six minutes of solid talk, or about
1000 words. The work of putting on
another cylinder takes about second,
and then I can go on. When my work
is done my typewriter takes my CYL
inders, puts them on his photograph
and writes out from the dictation, max
ing the instrument go as fast or as slow
as he wishes.
! "Now as to the advantages of the ma
chine over stenographer. In the first
place no stenographer can 60 as fast as /
like to talk; have to wait at every SEN
tence for the stenographer to catch up.
Sometimes the stenographers are busy.
The photograph is always ready, and
does not mind any rate of speed-the
faster the better. In the next place even
IA good stenographer, especially if hur-
ried, makes blunders, substitutes one
word for another which looks like it, or
skips words. The photograph repeats
every syllable just as you gave it. The
typewriter transcripts of my phono-
graph dictation are more perfect than
when my typewriter had to use his own
notes OF course, there are some disad-
vantages. When you wish to change a
lWoiu VI d ecutcuC0 yOu nave W give lllo |
necessary direction at the end of the |
message; it will not be long, however,
before some method of erasing will |
be devised. AS compared to debating
directly to the typewriter operator,
you can speak three times as fast and
not 80 loud, for you do not have to be |
heard above the rattle of the typewriter.
One little point will show you how valu-
able the graphophone will become. / |
have machine at my home in the coun- |
try. In the evenings do great deal !
of work in my library, and very often |
have to make long quotations from books |
which have at home, but of which |
have no { ..tes at the Office. Conse- |
quently, l. ne the graphophone came, I |
had to indicate in my brief where l |
wanted the quotation to begin and end,
and then / had to carry these books |
down to the Office for my operator to
copy from. With the graphophone it is
so easy to rattle off page or two of |
print that do SO and avoid taking my
books out of my library. In five min
,utes l can dictate to the graphophone |
what it would take me good hour to |
write out in long hand. New York Star |
The Scent Of Bloodhounds.