Thomas County cat., 1889-10-31
WONDERFUL EDISON.
He Tells Of Marvellous Things That He Ix
TO Bring Forth.

He Tells Of Marvellous Thing, That III. IL
TO Bring Forth.
The reporter asked MIR. Edison If it
was true that he had invented a ma
chine by the aid of which man in
New York would be able to see every
tnlng that,his wife was doing in Paris.
II don't know" said Mr.. Edison
laughing. that that would be a real
benefit to humanity. The women
certainly would protest. But, speak
ing seriously. am at work on an in
'ventlon which will allow a man in
wall street not only to telephone to a
friend in the Central Park, but to see
that friend while he is chatting tele-
f'honically with him This invention
would be useful and practical. and I
see no reason why it should not soon
become reality, and one of the first
things that l shall do when l get back
to America will be to set up this con-
trivance 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 1t would be ridiculous
to dream of seeing any one between
New York aud Paris. The round form
OF the earth. if there were no other
difficulty in the way, would make the
thing impossible"
Speaking of tho phonograph the re-
porter asked if it had reached it's
highest degree of perfection.
almost, think" said Mr.. Edison,
Gin the last instruments turned out of
my workshops. You must know that
the ordinary phonograph employed in
commerce does not begin to compare
with the latest machines that use in
my private experiments. With the
latter l can obtain a sound powerful
enough to reproduce phrases of a
speech that can be heard perfectly by
a large audience. My last ameliora-
tions were with the aspirate sounds.
which are the weak point of the
graphophone. For seven months 1
worked from eighteen to twenty hours
a day upon the single sound "specia."
would say to the instrument
''specia." and it would always say
''pecia,' and couldn't make it say
any thing else. 1t was enough to
make me crazy. But stuck to it until
| succeeded, and now you can read a
thousand words of Il newspaper at the
rate of one hundred and fifty words q
and the instrument will repeat
them to you without an omission. You
can imagine the difficulty of the task
that l accomplished when l tell YOU
that the impressions made upon the
cylinder are not more than one mill
lonth part OF an inch in depth, and are
invisible even with the aid
Of microscope"
Reporter-And what new discov-
cries will be made in electricity?
MIR. Edison - All, that would be
lifficult to say. We may some day
come upon one of the great secrets of
nature. l am always on the lookout
or something which will help me to
olive the problem of navigating the
Lir. have worked hard upon this
uhject, but l am very much discour-
.ged. We may find something new
'efore that comes; but that will come.
Mr.. Edison further said that the
'reat development of electricity will
ONE when we find more economical
Method of producing it. During his
rip across the ocean he remained for
IOurs on deck looking at the waves.
nd he says that it madS him wild
'hen he saw so much force going to
Taste. "But one of these days" he
ontinued. 1--WE will chain all that
ne falls OF Niagara as well as the
inds-and that will be the milleu-
ium Of electricity. ."-Courrier des
tats Uris.