The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-04
TALKING MACHINES.
The CRAPHOPHONs IN ACTUAL USE
AND DOING GOOD WORK.

The Opinion of Gentleman Who Em'
pIoys One n His Work-It T. superior
to the stsuographer In some Cases-Ho"
IL !. Run-sIx Minutes Solid Talk.
ANY one who doubts the usefulness OF
the phonograph or graphopiione, both
devices now being under the same man
agement and both presenting the best
features of the separate devices on bell
and Edison. needs but 10 wander through
q few Wall street law Offices in order 90
be- convinced that tbe talking machine,
by whatever name it Is - He'd, has come
% stay. Il is in daily use az the office oil
Bravt0n Ives. Sweet & Co, ilainos Broa.'
and I'm many other less prominent houses.
The reel business In talking machines
however. has not yet begun. Such M
strumcnts as are 10 be found in Use are
owned by persons interested in the com,
panv. None arc Ia be sold. They VIII
be rented at so year upon the same
system as that adopted by the telephone
Ieop.e.
so MORE PUNCH AND JUDY
"There you SEQ it," said this gentle
slan. ininga cover about half the size
Of sewing machine cover from cor
ner of his desk. "lt takes up no room
and isalwavs ready % take dlctation.
The praphophoue Is about the SIZE Oh
sewing machine which lt signify Ie-
semblos 4 cylinder Of hardened wax
H. revolvcd bv "a small electric motor con
ncciCd with "a battery n there - no cisc-
tic current 40 hand. I'm 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
j. still that OF the old Edison phonograph
Of 1915. The sound OF the voice causes
d minute diaphragm bearing q me
needle point ON ITS under side 90 vihrato.
Asa wax cylinder ten inches long and
two inches IN diameter revOlycs, the
uccdlepoilt iulcnts thowax according 10
the vibrations of tine diaphragm. making
a long spiral line around the cylinder,
which, as 10 rcrolyes, travels from right
to left. In order To got reproduction
of sound n species Of sounding board d
adjusted. and the needle is made 20 pass
again over the iudeniations It has made.
~ to scraps along the sounding dia-
phrem gives forth reproduction, more
or less perfect of the original words
talked into the instrument. In the ilrst
Edison phonograph OF twelve years ago
the instrument gave out a caricaturc Of
what was sail t0 il; if one knew what
had been said Oh sung into it 1t was easy
enough 90 make sense ont Of the phOnO-
graphs Punch and Judy talk, but not
otherwise. The changes have been i'm
the direction of improving the quality OK
al u Ir.f ~. 81 NHI.1H
than volume. As it may be heard to-
day the monographs message OF repro
ducti0n ismoIe distinct than one from
telephone In first class order and under
favorable conditions And wien the
telephone talk wei il talks very WOOL
COMPARED WITH sTENOGRAPHY.
THAT instrument has been there
nearlya month" continued the lawyer
"It has saved me days Of labor When
ann ready TO dictate "a brief or a con-
tract, / touch this little spring which
sets the machinery in motion; but so
nOi5eless is it that unless you put your
ear close 20 the motor You cannot hear it
at all. take this phone or mOuthpiece
and talk into it just as would do with
telephone. using my natural voice. AID
talking just as fast as / please, which
sou cannot 90 with telephone. If the
machine Is allowed 10 run, the cylinder
will De used up no the end of six minutes,
but whenever / come 10 the end of a
paragraph / want 10 think q moment, or
whenever ! am interrupted atouch stops
it. In this way cylinder represents
six minutes of solid talk, or about
1000 words. The work of putting on
another cylinder takes about q second, /
and then / can 90 on. When my work
b. done my typewriter takes my cyl
mders, puts them on his phOnograph /
and writes ont from the dictation, max I
ing the instrument 60 as fast or as slow /.
as be wishes.
"NOw as 90 the advantages Of the ma 7
chine over stenographcr In the first .
place 10 stcnugruphcr can 60 az fast as l
like Go talk. i have 10 wait at every sem .
toncc for the stenographor TO catch up. /
Sometimes the steu0grlphcrs are busy. I
Tic ph0nograph Is always ready, and I
does not mind any rate of specific .
faster the better. ban the next place even .
good stcnOguphcr, especially II hur- /
ried. makes biundors, substitutes one f.
word f0r another which looks like il, or T.
saips words. The photograph repeats 7
every syllable just as you gave 1t. The /
typewriter transcripts OF my phOno- |
graph dictatiOn arc more perfect than /
when my typewriter had 10 use his own /
notes OF course. there are some disad- I
vantages. When YOU wish TO change a /
word or q sentence YOU have TO give the !
necessary direction at the end Of the /
message: it viii not be long, however, /
before some method Of erasing Will /
be devised. As compared TO debating /
directly % the typewriter OPERATOR, .
YOU can speak three times as fast and .
not so loud, for You do not have 20 be .
heard above the rattle Of the typewriter .
One little point win show YOU how valu- .
able the graphophonc viii become. f
have q machine at my home in the cOun- .
try. IN the evenings l do a great deal .
Of work IN my library, and very often .
have 10 make long quotations from books +
which / have nc home. bat Of which ! .
have no duplicates at the Office. COnse- .
quentlY, before the graphopAone came, +
lad e. indicate i'm my brief whore | .
wanted tho quotation 10 begin and end. .
and then ! had To carry these books .
down 10 the Office for NY operator 70 /
copy from With the gfaph05hOne 1t IS .
50 easy To rattle of u page or two OF /
print that / DO s0 and avoid taking my .
books out Of my library. In five min
utes ! can dictate 20 the graphophone
what it would take me a good hour TO
write out in long hand. New York Star
The scent Of Bioodhound-.
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