The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-05-23
WONDERFUL EDISON.
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The reporter asked Mr. Edison II it
was true that he had invented machine
hy the aid Of which 4 man in New York
would ho able TO See everything that his
wife was doing in Paris,
III don't know, said MIR Edison, laugh,
ing, that that would ho real benefit TO
humanity, The women certainly would
protest But, speaking seriously, | am
at work ON an invention which will nj.
low man in Wall street not only TO
telephone toa friend in the Central park,
but TO see that friend while he is chat
ting telophomcally with him This in
veution would Toe useful and practical,
aud | see NO reason why Il should not
soon become a reality, and one of the
first things that | shalt do when | get
back to America will bo 20 set up this
contriyauco between my laboratory and
my telephone workshops, Moreover, |
have already obtained satisfactory re.
suits in reproducing images at that dis
tance, which is only about 1000 feet II
would be ridiculous TO dream of seeing
any one between New York and Paris
The round form of the earth, If there
were no other difficulty in the way, would
make the thing impossible. ="
Speaking of the phonograph, the re-
porter asked If il had reached its highest
degree of perfection
almost, think, said Mr. Edison,
in 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
can obtain sound powerful enough to
reproduce phrases of speech that can
be heard perfectly by large audience
My last umplioratious were with the as.
pirate sounds, which are the weak point
OF the graphophone. For seven months
worked from eighteen to twenty hours
a day upon the single sound 'spccia. |
would say to the instrument 'specia
and it would always say pecia. and
couldn't make it say anything else Ii
was enough to make me crazy, But
stuck To il until | succeeded, and now
YOU can read thousand words of a
newspaper at the rate OF 100 words a
minute, and the instrument will repeat
them to you without an omission. You
can imagine the difficulty of the task
that accomplished when tell YOU that
the impressions made upon the cylinder
are not more than one millionth part of
an inch in depth, and are completely in.
visible even with the aid of a micro
scope"
Reporter-And what new discoveries
will be made in electricity?
Mr.. Edison-Ah, that would be diff.
cult to say We may some day come
upon one of the great secrets of nature
| am always on the look out for some
thing which will help me to solve the
problem of navigating the air. have
worked hard upon this subject, but am
very much discouraged We may find
something new before that comes, but
that will come
Mr. Edison further said that the great
development of electricity will come
when we find a more economical method
of producing it. During his trip across
the ocean he remained for hours on deck
looking at the waves. and he says that it
made him wild when he saw so much
force going - waste. But one of these
days" he continued, 1--WE will chain all
that-the falls Of Niagara as we'll as the
Withstand that will be the millennium
of electricity. ."-Courrier des Etats- Unis