The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08
THE KIEEToGRAPH.

/ speech here and have il recorded and re-
/ produced in any Of the great planetary
I bodies"
/ THE KrsEToeRAPH.
here asked Mr. Edison as TO the phon-
/ ograph and he told me that q large num-
Der Of them were in use and that he be-
Iieved they would be eventually used
everywhere. He took me out into his
laboratory and showed me his last inven-
ton in connection with the photograph
which be calls by the name of the kineto-
graph. and which IS almost as wonderful
as the phonograph itself. With the pnon-
ograph you can take song OF PATHS
from the lips Of the diva and can repro
duce it before an audience IN all
its intensity and beauty year
later and a thousand miles away.
By the photograph, with the aid of the
steTe0pticon, you can throw upon q screen
picture Of Patti just as she looked and
acted st the time she was singing the
song, and one Of the great exhibitions Of
the future Will De the reproduction Of great
speeches and songs in this way. You can
I reproduce a pant0mlme with the kInetO-
graph, and YOU can make Chauncey De-
pew 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 instantane-
Gus photography Of the man who is TO be
reproduced. The machine takes him in
action, and il so works that il takes 9, $50
photographs every minute that he IS
speaking, or forty-six pictures Of him
every second. These photographs
are taken on 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 that the eye does not see the forty-six
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the motious or gestures of the man. saw
one of these machines in motion repre-
senting one of Mr.. Edison'5 employees
taking q 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 photographs represented a boxing
match, and il was as natural
as though the men were actually fighting
before your eyes, and it sometimes took
dozen photographs 10 make a single mo-
ton. Mr.. Edison expects to show this
machine in its perfection at the Columbia
exposition. The machine l saw was
nickel-in-the-slot machine, and it will
probably be on the market in short time.
The strip on which the photographs are
taken is about as wide as tape measure.
but the figures are magnihed through a
glass IN looking at them.
THE FUTURE OF THE PHoSoGRAPH.
1 asked Mr.. Edison as to the profits of
the phonograph. lie replied that the in
vention had not been managed as well as
1t should, and he spoke Of Mr.. Lippincott,
of Philadelphia, the man who some time
ago had the contract to manage the
monograph and graphophonc. Said he
during the talk on this subject;
"Lippincott is suffering from a clot of
blood on his brain. The doctors say this
clot is about the weight of a gram, but,
however, big as it is, it has lost Mr.. Lip
pincott 100000 A million dollars a
gram. Sixty million dollars an ounce.
That's the most expensive material have
ever heard of. | don't know whether he
will recover or not, but the photograph
Will eventually pay and pay WELL"
EDIsoNs NEW ELECTRIC ROAD.
Before left 1 looked at Mr.. Edisons
street railroad upon which he is working.
The car and track are in the yard sur
rounding the laboratory. and the invention,
| understand, is ready for use. 1t is intend
ed for large cities which will not permit the
use of the overhead wire. 1t will be much
cheaper than the cable, but will be more
expensive than the trolley system, and it
may be used on a regular railroad as well
as on a street car. Its locomotive will
have l,OOO-horse power, and 1t will take up
the electricity from rail which runs
along through the center of the track and
between the two rails on which the cars
move. 1t will not be expensive to put
down, and Mr. Edison saws the streets
will not have 10 be torn up as they are for
the cable. He belives it will be the street
railway for cities of the near future, and
says he is making the invention for Mr..
Willard.
ELECTRICITY AND THE NEWSPAPERS.
Mr.. Edison takes pride in having been a
newspaper man. He likes to talk of the
days when as a boy he edited and printed
the Grand Trunk Herald. He tells me he
was a newsboy on the train when he did
it. and he believes it is the only newspaper
that has ever been published on a news
paper tram. He ran it for more than a
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 newspaper re-
ports which he sent out while tele-
grapher, and told me That the worst COPY
he ever handled was that of George NJ
BlosS, of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Said he:
Il was telegraph operator at Cincln-
natl at the time he was editor of the I'm
qtjrer and his copy some times came into
the Office. l remember one piece which
none OF US could translate and we sent il
back to the Enquirer office and had them
that of Horace Greeley, and | remember
that we tackled piece of it upon the wall
OF the telegraph Office and left standing
offer below II Of $40 to the nrst man who
could decipher ten lines of it and the
money was never claimed.
such thing will never happen" said
|, when newspaper reporters turn in
their copy on the monograph"
NO" replied Mr.. Edison, lit will not
The phonograph and the telephone are
now considerably used in newspaper work
and We may have newspaper Photographs
in the future, and newspaper pictures may
be sent from one part of the country 10
the other by electricity
"Wlu 1t ever be possible, Mr.. Edison"
said |, 'to take the page of a newspaper as
set up in New York and telegraph such a
photograph of IL to the other great cities
OF the country rs could he placed at once
on an etching plate and one setting up in
this way do for the whole country"
Mr.. Edison thought for a moment and
then said: Yes, that could be done,
though | don't know whether II would he
pTuutabie, and the day may also come
when man sitting at type-settlug ma
chine in New York may by tapping the
keys of a typewriter set up the press dis
patches by means of similar machines in
every newspaper Office of the United
States. There is no doubt but this could
he done now, and when we have perfect
type-setting machines, our press telegraph
ers can do the setting up of their own dis
patches
This remark concluded nv interview.
and after a walk with Mr.. Ellison through
his laboratory drove To the station past
Lleweilyn park, where Mr.. Edison has one
of the most beautiful country residences
in New Jersey. Here. simple and unpre-
tcntiOus. he lives comfortably with his
family, Geyotjng the most Of his time 10
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