The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-16
WONDERFUL EDISON.
he Tells Of Vet More Wonderful Things
That He Il 20 Hiring Forth.

lie Tells Of Vet More Wonderful Things
That ne Il to bring Forth.
The reporter asked MIR. Edison II 1t
was true that he had invented machine
by the aid Of which man in New York
would be able to see everything that his
wife was doing in Paris.
II don't know, said Mr.. Edison, laugh
ing, THAT that would be real benefit TO
humanity. The women certainly would
protest. But. speaking seriously, l am
at work on an invention which will al
low q man in Wall street not only to
telephone to friend In the Central park,
but to see that friend while he Is chat
ting telephonically with him. This in
vention would be useful and practical,
and I see no reason why it should not
soon become q reality, and ono Of the
first things that l shall do when ! get
| back to America will be to set up this
| continuance between my laboratory and
my telephone workshops. Moreover, ]
have already obtained satisfactory re-
suits in reproducing images at that dis
lance, which is only about 1000 feet. 1t
would be ridiculous to dream of seeing
any one between New York and Paris.
The round form of the earth, il there
were 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,
Sin 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 I use in my
private experiments. With the latter
can obtain q sound powerful enough to
reproduce phrases Of a speech that can
be heard perfectly by large audience
MY last authorizations were with the as
pirate sounds, which are the weak point
of tho graphophone. For seven months
worked from eighteen to twenty hours
day upon the single sound 'specia.'
would say to the instrument 'specia,
and it would always say 'pecia,' and
couldn't make it say anything else. L
was enough to make me crazy. But
stuck to it until succeeded, and nov
you can read thousand words of :
newspaper at the rate of $50 words :
; minute, and the instrument will repea
them to you without an omission. 70,
can imagine tho difficulty of the tasl
that accomplished when tell you tina
the impressions made upon the cylinde
are not more than one millionth part o
an inch in depth, and are completely in
visible even with the aid of a micro
/ scope"
, Reporter-And what new discoverie
will be made in electricity?
Mr.. Edison-Ah, that would be diff
cult to say. We may some day com
upon one Of the great secrets of nature
l am always on the look out for some
ti,ing which will help me to solve tn
problem of navigating the air. hav
worked hard upon this subject, but an
very much discouraged. We may An
something new before that comes, bu
3 that will come.
Mr.. Edison further said that the grea
development of electricity will com
when we find q more economical metho
j of producing it. During his trip acros
8 the ocean he remained for hours on dec
8 looking at the waves, and he says that
!. made him wild when he saw so muc
force going to waste. But one of thcs
. days." he continued, "SEe will chain a
: that-the falls of Niagara as well as til
a Withstand that will be the millennium
a of acknowledgements dcs Etats- Uni