The Springdale news., 1889-12-20
WONDERFUL EDISON,
He Tells of Marvellous Things That He Is
 to Bring Eorth.

He Tells of Marvellous Things That He Is
 10 Bring Eorti..
 The reporter asked Mr Ediscn if it was true that he had invented ma chine by the aid of which a man in New York would be able to see every thing that his wife was doing in Paris.
 Il don't know" said Mr Edison, laughing. that that would be q real benefit to humanity. The women certainly would protest. But, speak ing seriously, l am at work on an in- vention which will allow a man in Wall street not only to telephone to friend in the Central Park, but to see that friend while he is chatting tele- phonfcally with him. This invention would be useful and practical. and 1 see no reason why it should not soon become reality, and one of the first things that 1 shall do when l get back to America will be to set up this con- trivanee between my laboratory and my telephone workshops. Moreover, l have already obtained satisfactory results in reproducing images at that distance, which is only about one thousand feet It would be ridiculous to dream of seeing any one between New York and Paris. The round form of the earth, if there wege no other difficulty in the way, would make the thing impossible" /"
 Speaking of the phonograph the re-  porter asked if it had reached its highest degree of perfection.
 Almost, think, said Mr. Edison, ''in the last instruments turned out of my workshops. You must know that the ordinary photograph employed in commerce does not begin to compare with the latest machines that l use in my private experiments. With the latter l can obtain sound powerful enough to reproduce phrases of speech Chat can be heard perfectly by large audience My last ameIiora- tions were with the aspirate sounds. which are the weak point of the graphophoue. For seven months l worked from eighteen to twenty hours
 
 l would say to the instrument "speeia. and it would always say ''pecia, and l couldn't make it say any thing else. It was enough to make me crazy. But 1 stuck to il until succeeded, and now you can read q thousand words of a newspaper at the rate of one hundred and fifty words d minute, and the instrument will repeat them to you without an omission. You can imagine the difficulty of the task that accomplished when l tell you that the impressions made upon the cylinder are not more than one mill ionth part of an inch in depth, and are completely invisible even with the aid of a microscope.
 Reporter-And what new discov- cries will be made in eleetricitye
 Mr.. Edison = An, that would be difficult to say. We may some day come upon ole of the great secrets of nature. ] am always on the lookout for something which will help me to solve the problem of navigating the dIF. nave NotkeQ nara upon tnlS subject, but l am very much discour- aged. We may find something new before that comes; bat that will come.
 Mr Edison further said that the great development of electricity will come when We find more economical method of producing it. During his trip across the ocean he remained for hours on deck looking at the waves, and he says that it made him wild when he saw so much force going to waste. But one of these days, he continued. we will chain all that the falls of Niagara as well as the withstand that will be the milleu- nium of electricity. .'-Courrier des Etats | I[nis