The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08

ment is the biggest thing of the kind in ma
ture. There is in the New Jersey noun
talns vast mass Of iron mile long and of
about the same width which runs straight
down into the earth for a number of miles.
Tine telephone" said Mr.. Edison, sis you
know made by running wire around the
top of magnetic bar and this machine
when charged with electricity enables US
to register the sounds which come IN con
tact with It, We are using this immense
natural bar of iron of the New Jersey
mountains as the basis Of our telephone.
We have wound miles of wire about it's top
and have formed an inductive circuit in
which we will have the most powerful of
electric currents. We expect through it to
hear the noises made on the sun and the
explosions which are supposed to be con-
stantly going on there will believe within
a few weeks be 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.
'We have by no means reached the per-
lection of the telephone" Mr.. Edison went
on. improvements are being made all the
time and the day will come when everyone
will have his telephone. Long distance
telephoning is growing and the only re-
strtction of the possibilities of the telephone
is In the sympathetic contact of the cleo
trlcal wire with the rest of nature. If
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 1t 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 thou.
sand miles long over a treeless country in
Arizona we got better telephone connection
hon ln lot, Nnrr a
Philadelphia. If we could have telephone
from the earth to the sum mean q wire
we could send sounds there with perfect
ease, and with the photograph, were our
language universal, we could make speech
here and have it recorded and reproduced
in any OF the great planetary bodies,
THE KINEToeRAPH.
Here l asked Mr.. Edison as to the phono-
graph and he told me that large number
of them were in use and that he believed
they would be eventually used everywhere.
He took me out into his laboratory and
showed me his last invention in connection
with the photograph which he calls by the
name of the photograph and which is al
most as wonderful as the photograph itself.
With the photograph you can take a song
of PATHS from the lips of the Diva and can
reproduce it before an audience in all its
intensity and beauty year later and a
with the aid of stereopticon you can throw
upon screen a picture of Patti just as she
| looked and acted at the time she was sing
ing the song, and one of the great eXhib-
tions of the future will be the reproduction
of great speeches and songs in this way.
| You can reproduce pantomine with the
photograph and you can make Chauncey
| Depew deliver the same after dinner speech
a thousand times with the same gestures
and the same smile if you can once get him
before it. 1t is made by instantaneous
| photography of the man who it to be
reproduced. The machine takes him in &C
! ton and it so works that it takes 2. 760 pho
| toGraphs every minute that he is speaking,
or forty six pictures of him every second.
These photographs are taken on q long
| strip of gelatine film and in reproducing
them they are made to revolve as fast
before the eye as when they were taken.
| The result is the eye does not see the forty
| six photographs but 1t sees only the one
with the motions or gestures of the man.
saw one of these machines in motion repre-
senting one of Mr.. Edison's employees tax
ing smoke and you can see the man raise
the cigar to his lips turn his head and blow
out the smoke just as naturally as though
he were in life. Another set of photo
graphs represented boxing match and it
was as natural as though the men were &C
tually fighting before your eyes and il
sometimes took dozen photographs tc
make single motion. Mr.. Edison expects
to show this machine in its perfection al
the Columbian exposition. The machine ]
saw was a nickle-in-the slot machine and
it will probably be on the market in shor,
time. The strip on which the photographs
are taken is about as wide as tape meas
ure, but the figures are magnified through
a glass in looking at them.
THE FUTURE OF THE PHoNoGRAPH.
I asked Mr.. Edison as to the profits Of
the photograph. He replied that the in
vention had not been managed as well as i
should be, and he spoke of Mr. Lippincot
of Philadelphia the man who sometime age
, had the contract to manage the phonograpt
and graphophone. Said he during the tall
on the subject:
"Lippincott is suffering from clot Of
blood on his brain. The doctors say thi!
clot is about the weight of a gram but, how
, ever big it is, it has lost Mr.. Lippincott
million dollars A million dollars a gram
Sixty million dollars an ounce That's the
, most expensive material | have ever hearC
of. l don't know whether ne will recove
or not but the photograph will eventual,
! pay and pay well."i
ELECTRICITY AND THE NEWSPAPERS.
Mr.. Edison takes pride in having been
; newspaper man. He likes to talk of tn
days when as boy he edited and prin tel
, the Grand Trunk Herald. He tells me h.
was newsboy on the train when he did i
, and he believes it is the only neWspepe
; that has ever been published on a news
paper train. He ran it for more than
, year, and by virtue of it he says he is nov
, member OF the New York Press club. H
! talked with me as to the newspaper report
which he sent out while telegrapher an
told me that the worst copy he ever handles
( was that Of George NJ. Bloss OF the Cincin
natl Enquirer Said he:'
, ~ was telegraph operator at Cincinnati
at the time be was editor of the Enquire
and his copy sometimes came into the Office
, l remember one piece which none of u
could translate, and we sent it back to tn
! Enquirer Office and had them copy it for u.
1t was worse writing than that of Horac
Greeley and | remember that we tackled
piece of it upon the wall of the telegrap
office, and left standing offer below it c
q ten dollars to the first man who could de
!. cipher ten lines of it and the money wa
never reclaimed
"Such thing will never happen" said
'when newspaper reporters turn in thei
J. copy on the photograph"
J. NO" replied MIR. Edison, ut will no
: The photograph and the telephone are no