Evening journal., 1891-05-28
1T OUTEDISORS EDISON
The Latest Wonder from the
Wizards Workshop.
SIGHT HAS BEEN Welded TO SOUND
The Kinetograph Is Huge Mechanical
Eye, which WIN Reproduce Not Only
the Sound Of an Opera but the APP
pearance Of the Players Also.


pearance Of the Players Also.
NEW YORK, May IS From the labora-
tory Of the Wizard of Menlo Park there is |
coming an invention which out Edisons |
Edison II is the marriage Of the phono |
graph with the camem-but the union in |
one instrument Of sound and sight. With |
ii the opera can be carried into the parlor |
and the artists can not only be heard, but
seen. The popular preacher, the eminent
public speaker with 1t can all be brought
to the home The new wonder will be
called the "kinetograph, strange sound.
ing to the ear today, but destined perhaps
soon TO become as familiar as locomotive
or telephone, both strange words IN theii
infancy. Mr. Edison has been at work on
this newest conception Of his genius for
three years Now as he knows that its base
principle is right all that remains to be
done is to perfect the details
The New Invention.
The new invention Is a combination ma
chine, in which the phonograph and the
Photographic camera work together II
will reproduce not only sound, but also a
picture of what passes before IT, Not q
mere instantaneous impression Of objects
| but a continuous representation Of them
| for a considerable space of time. Mr.. Edi
| son claims it will reproduce an opera. The
phonograph will render the music and the
Photographic apparatus will reproduce the
| performers so that their presence on the
stage will be depicted, every muscle of
| their faces will be seen to work, their
strides, movements, all will be true to
nature.
In other words, the camera will give
continuous picture OF a singer on the stage
| for say thirty minutes. all his motions and
| gestures, while its ally, the phonograph,
viii record every note he utters.
by instantaneous Photograph.
To produce this result it was necessary
for the inventor to be able to take a series
of instantaneous photographs following
each other in such quick succession that
no lapse of time can be detected between
the impressions recorded and the series OF
pictures become in effect but one contin.
uous picture
And this Mr. Edison has succeeded in
doing. Operated by an electric motor, his
camera will take forty-six impressions in
each second of time, and in this way the
impressions are recorded so rapidly that
the motions become resolved into pur,
motion, instead of a series Of jerks Tn,
impressions are recorded on n long roll q
gelatine paper fastened to a spindle, whicl
passes over Photographic lens
I The Inventors Description.
This IS how Mr. Edison himself describe
Z the wonder: "The machine starts, moves
J uncloses, stops, takes photograph, closes
I starts, uncloses stops, takes another an,
so on, and forty-six of these are recorded
s every second
Aud this process can be kept up 70
thirty minutes without pause. So 2, 20
T photographs can he taken each minute ant
800 every half hour Thas the full rep
{ resentation Of say, an opera, the movemen
g on the stage and music can be recorded b,
! this novel machine, Mr. Edison has NJ
! doubt that he will live to see an opera re
D corded and reproduced by the kinetograph
+ Said he:
t u take, for example, dress rehearsal
5 Of 'Erminie / will place my machine Of
4 a table in front Of the stage The tw
agencies, the phonograph and the kineto
/ graph, will work together in harmony am
/ with a continuous capacity of thirty mir
: utes. Both viii start as the curtain rise,
e The phonograph will record the musi,
l. while the kinetograph will record the me
tions Of the performers at the rate Of forty
six impressions per second. This will Civ
a continuous picture Of what is going O
on the stage
Il A Great Mechanical Eye
"Afterward the Photographic slips vii
j, be developed, replaced in the machine AM
/, a projecting lens will be substituted 70
S the photograph lens. Then the reproducing
part of the phonograph win be adjusted
aFa Inifr lffraf Bt 4
e effect can be reproduced at life size on
3 white curtain ia front Of an audience. Tn
original scene will appear to their eyes a
true as life. They Will see the singers b
fore them and all their movements an
!. gestures will appear as II they were actual
! on the stage The colors will not appear
I, but otherwise you will see and hear I'll
: opera as you see it at the Casino. The mi
I, chine is, in fact, merely mechanical eye.
\ Drop Nickel in the Slot.
/ Once set going by any power the Gamer
# works automatically. It's the great spec
/ attained and the great Bumber OF impre.
d sions obtained in a limited space Of tim
Il which, Mr.. Edison says, enables him {
y get the pure motion or continuous phot,
n graph depicting everything that occurs
If The vibrations Of light and motion an
d gotten rid Of. The two machines, Oh
" phonograph and kinetograph, must wor
e simultaneously and exactly together {
the result would not be a success
After the impressions are recorded an
number Of duplicates can be struck o
r and, when perfected, this machine coul
% be operated in any household. The tim
II will come when they. may be erected
i hotels, and a nickel dropped in a slot wi
% enable one to hear and see Patti sing on
le Of her gems. Nor need it be confined I
le operas II will reproduce anything tina
IS can be photographed and the phonograp
le will attend to the sound.
It Made the Wizard Mad.
The Wizard says it is very simple.
wrote an article some years ago." he SAT-
= "hinting at this very invention. The p
n pers made fun of me-said had bett,
stop talking. This made me mad, and
y determined to carry the conception to
AZ successful issue / felt confident that
le could do it. The only trouble about
a, was to take the impressions fast enougl
A so as to secure pure motion. This / ha'
done. / intend to have il ready and
practical working shape for the Chical
= exposition.
do ! expect to make money out of i
q Well, have never thought Of that. ha'
y worked it out for amusement: it has bee
4 pet hobby Of minen
Y And the greatest inventor Of his az
i. looked quite content with the result of h
labor.
France Looking Out for War.
PARIS, May 2S.-The chamber of dep