Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-07

which we will have the most powerful Of cleo
trio currents. We expect through it 70 hear the
noises made on the sun, and the explosions
which are supposed to be constantly going on
heard right here. We have been working at
the matter for some time and have 1t Just
about ready for testing.
WHISPER AROUND THE WORLD.
1--WE have by no means reached the perfec-
ton Of the telephone. Mr.. Edison went on.
Improvements are being made all the time,
and the day will come when every one will have
his telephone. Long-distance telephoning is
growing and the only restriction of the posi-
biiities OF the telephone lie in the sympathetic
contact OF the electrical wiro with the rest of
nature. II single wire could be placed SO
high above the earth that it would not touch
the mountain tops you could whisper around
the world and you could sing song in London
and have it heard In Pekin. Wherever we get
the wire comparatively free from contact with
the earth distance seems to make no difference,
and on government line thousand miles long
over a treeless country in Arizona We got bet
ter telephonlc connection than we do now be-
tween New York and Philadelphia. If we could
nave telephone from the earth to the sun
L mean n wire-we could send sounds there
with perfect ease. and with the photograph,
were our language universal. We could make q
speech here and have it recorded aud repro
duced in any of the great planetary bodies"
THE klNETOGRAPH.
he took me out into his laboratory and
showed me his last invention in connection
with the phonogragh, which he calls by the
name Of the kinetograph With the phono-
graph you can take a song of PATHS from the
lips of the diva, and can reproduce it before
All audience a year later ana thousand miles
away. BY the kinetograph, with the aid of a
stereopticon, you can throw upon screen
picture Of Patti just as she looked and acted at
Tha he, 81,
the great exhibitions OF the future will be the
reproduction Of great speeches and songs in
this way. You can reproduce pantomime
with the photograph and you can make Chaun-
cey Depew deliver the same aftcr-dinuer speech
a thousand times with the same gestures and
the same smile II YOU can once get him before
1t. 1t Is made by instantaneous photography
OF the man who Is to be reproduced. The ma
chine takes him in action and 1t works that it
takes two thousand seven hundred and sixty pho
tograpEs every minute that he is speaking or
forty-slS pictures of him every second. These
photographs are taken on a long strip Of CELIA
tine film, and in reproducing them they are
made TO revolve as fast before the eve as when
they were taken. The result is that the eve
does not see the forty-six photographs. but it
sees only The one with the motions or gestures
CT the man. saw one of these machines in
motion representing one Of MIR. Edisons en-
plOyes taking smoke. and You can see the
man raise the cigar 10 his lips turn his heal
anu ploW ont the smoke Just as naturally rs
though he were in lite. Another set of photo
graphs represented boxing match, and it was
as natural as though the men were actually
hShtlnG before your eyes, and it sometimes
took a dozen photographs to make a single
motion.
Mr. Edison expects to show this machine in
us perfection at the Columbian exposition
! he strip on which the photographs are taken
Is about az wide rs tape measure but the
hgures are magnified through glass in looking
at them.
ELECTRICITY AND THE NEWSPAPERS
MIR. Edison takes pride in having been a
newspaper man. He likes to talk of the DAYS
when, a boy. he edited and printed the
Grand Trunk Herald. He tells me he was q |
newsboy on the train when he did it and he be-
,leves 1t is the only newspaper that has ever
been published on a newspaper train He ran
!" for more than year and by virtue of it |
he says he is now a member of the New York |
Press Club. He talked with me as to the news |
paper reports which he sent out while tel !
sgrapher and told me that the worst COPY he |
ever handled WAS that OF George NJ Bioss of |
the cincinnati Enquirer. Said he:
, Il was telegraph operator at Cincinnati at |
the time he was editor OF the Enquirer and his !
copy sometimes came into the office l re-
member one piece which none of us could |
translate and we sent il back TO the Enquirer |
office and had them copy It for us. 1t was
worse writing than that of Horace Greeley and |
remember that we tackled piece Of it upon |
the wall of the telegraph office and left stand
ing offer below it OF so to the first man who |
could decipher ten lines OF it, and the money
was never claimed"