Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-01-05
TALKING MACHINES.
the oRApHoPhoNe m ACTUAL USE
AND oolNo GOOD WORK.

Ths 0pinion of . Oenticman who Eua-
plcys ore - His work-It IL superior
- ths stencg.apher In ssme Cases-Ilew
n II Run-six Minutes Solid Talk.
ANY one who doubts tho usefulness Of
the phonograph or grsphophone, both
devices now being under the same man
egement and both presenting the best
and Edison, needs but to wander through
. few Wall street law Offices In order TO
b convinced that the talking machine,
By whatever name II Il called, has come
% stay. lt Il In daily use at the offlce OF
Brayton ives, Sweet q Co., Hainee Bros,
and In many other lees prominent houses.
The real business In talking machines,
however. has not yet begun. Such in
strumeuts as arc to be found In use arc
owned by persons interested In the com.
pany. Mono are to be sold. They will
30 rented at 40 year upon the eamo
system as that adopted by the telephone
isople.
NO MORE PUNCH AND JUDY.
"There you SEQ It," said this gentle
nan, lifting o cover about half the size
e sewing machine cover from q cor
ner of his desk. 'It takes up no room
and Is always ready to tako dictation."
The graphobhone Il about the size OF q
sewing machine, which u slightly re-
semblSs. A cylinder Of hardened wax
e revolved by a small electric motor con-
hected With q battery II there is no elec-
trio current ut hand. In tho Mills build
Ing the motor is run by 2 wire from the
electric lamp. with which tho Offices are
tupp!led. The principle OF the apparatus
6f 1875. Tho sound Of tho voice causes
needle point on lts under side to vibrate.
As wax cylinder ten inches long and
two inches IN diameter revolves, the
needle point indents tho wax according to
the vibrations Of the diaphragm, making
d long spiral limo around the cylinder,
which, as " revolves, travels. from right
to left. In order to get reproduction
6f sound species OF sounding board Is
Adjusted, and the needle Ia made to pass
again over the indentations II has made.
AZ It scrapes along the sounding" dia-
phragm gives forth reproduction, moro
or less perfect, Of tho original words
talked into the instrument. In the first
Edison phonogrnph Of twelve years ago
the instrument gave out d caricature of
what was said to II; II one knew what
had been said or suing Into II II was easy
enough to make sense out Of the phono-
graphs Punch and Judy talk, but not
otherwise. The changes have been In
tho direction Of improving tho quality Of
the sound and tts distinctness, rather
than volume. Az. It may be heard to-
DAY, the phonographs message or repro
telephone In first class order and under
favorable conditions And when tho
telephone "talks. we'll II talks very woll.
COMPARED WITH sTENoanAPHy.
"That instrument has been there
"It has saved me days Of labor. Wher
tract, touch this little spring, which
sets the machinery In motion; but so
noiseless Is 1t that unless you put your
ear CLOSE to the motor you cannot hear Ii
at all. l take this phone or mouthpiece
and talk into It just as would do with Q
telephone, using my natural voice, and
talking just as fast as please, which
you cannot do with o telephone. II tho
machine is allowed to run, the cylinder
will be used up at tho end Of six minutes,
but whenever come TO the end Of q
paragraph I want to think moment, or
whenever am interrupted a touch stops
1t. In this way o cylinder represents
six minutes Of solid talk, or about
1000 words. Tho work Of putting on
another cylinder takes about a second,
and then I can go on. Whom my work
is done my typewriter takes my cyl
inders, puts them on his phonograph
and writes out from the dictation, max
ing tho instrument go as fast or as slow
as he wishes.
"Now as to the advantages Of the ma
chine over stenographer. In the first
like to talk; have to wait at every SEN
tence for the stenographer to catch up.
Sometimes the stenographers are busy,
The phonograph Is always ready, and
does not mind any rate Of speed-the
faster the better. In the next place even
n good stenographer, especially IL hur-
ricd, makes blunders, substitutes one
word for another which looks like 1t, OF
skips words. The phonograph repeats
every syllable just aS you gave 1t. The
typewritten transcripts Of my phono.
graph dictation are moro perfect than
when my typewriter had to use his own
notes. OF course, there are some disad.
vantages. When you wish to change O
word or sentence you have to give the
necessary direction at the end Of the
message; 1t will not be long, however
before some method Of erasipg will
be devised. As compared to debating
directly to the typewriter operator,
you can speak three times as fast and
not 30 loud, for you do not have to be
heard above tho rattle Of the typewriter
Ono little point win show you how vafu
able the graphophone will become.
have machine at my homo In tho coun
try. In the evenings do great dea
Of work in my library, and very often
have to make long quotations from book,
which have ut home, but OF which
have no duplicates at the Office. Conse
quently, before the graphophone came,
had to indicate IN my brief where
wanted the quotation to begin and end
and then ] had to carry these book
down to the Qffic3 for my operator Z
copy from. With tho graphophone 1t |
20 easy to rattle of page or two o
print that I do so and avoid taking m,
books out Of my library. In five min
| utes can dictate to the graphophon
| what it would take me q good hour Il
write out in long hand. New York Star
| The Scent of Bloodhounds.
Il Soma peonle doubt tho Doseibilitv n