Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-19
THE USEFUL ARTS.
THE WORLDS PROGRESS IN SCI
ENCE AND INDUSTRY.
what Edison Thinks Of Ills New tn-
Nention, the Ninctosc ,pe - The
Chemistry Of Cicnnsi lg-- rciegrn-
ply Under Observation-Disclosures
OH Press,

MI, EuiSon calls VI u moro toy, enter
tanning, but not the thing he Is striving
after, The toy is well worth seeing.
nevertheless, II is n square box of
polished oak, with slot TO receive the
nickel that turns on the electric light
and starts the mawclouSly rapid mech.
anism going, The duration OF the show
Is twenty seconds The picture Is alb
solutclr stable and clear, but the figures
IN " 80 about rs freely and naturally
ms though they were alive.
The nickel inthcSlOt kiutoscope
shows fortysiN photographs second.
and keeps this up for twenty seconds,
The moving picture that looks so M
tural Is therefore u succession ~ go
separate photographs. but the station.
AIRY parts Of the picture do rot move
or even trcmhlc But, though all IL
apparently SO smooth aud nuisclns
from the outside, the machinery inside
Is moving at n high rate of speed.
Every second forty six pictures stop
and make their Impress on tho eye,
Each stop Is onc,siNticth of Il second
In duration, and then In the iSath of
second the machinery Jerks away
one picture ANA presents the next for
another pause. As wcll try To mark
the flight Of II rifle bali ns To see the
change which You know Is taking place
under your very eyes The wonderful
thing iS the accuracy Of the adjust
mont that brings each picture exactly
into the same bounds as that which
went before and without visible lar
or trcmor.
The kintograph In Mr. Edson's In
horltory In West Orange represents u
man getting shaved In n 80 barber shop
The whole operation Is supposed 10
take place IN twenty seconds There
are hundreds o: other scenes which
he has ready to put upon the market
or the celebrities already photographed
Sandow, the strong m1u, Is The best
known. Sandow goes through his per-
formancc In twenty seconds, Ills
mighty muscles swell, ard he bends and
lifts weights ana extends his arms and
gets through in time to make his best
bow before the light goes out,
Mr.. Edison recently had n couple Of
the best boxers up from the Newark
Turnverin, ana their pictures were
found 10 be very interesting aud real
istic, Every movement was accurate
~ reproduced. Hundreds of such plct-
urcs have been given away hy Mr.,
Edison, and Mr. w. Il. H. Dickson,
the electrical engineer who has charge
of the kinrtograph department., aud
they are treasured ~ kccpsakcs In
many houses about Orange one series
represents two blacksniths at work
with great hammers over piece OF hot
iron on I'M anvil Their swinging
blows are all reproduced, and every
movement Of their bodies Is accurately
represented one can almost see the
sparks fly MS (of course without the
kmtoscopcJ The eye giunces NJ the
successive pictures While they are
thus engaged the hlaCksmith's helper
gets out n bottle of beer, aud the men
quit hammering and sample The con.
tents of the bottle. Boston Advertiser.
Photography Under difficulties.
From what u. O. Walker says In his
paper on the Geographic communica-
tiCn between England and India ~
to Geographic amenities In Persia, the
life of nm inspector In thlt country
Is hardly 10 be onvIcd The Ines had
to he laid over four mountain passes
10 yet To the plateau and down Il iifth
% reach Tchcran The elevations being
Prom 100 to $500 feet The heat Ia
summer Is nearly as distr 'SshE ms II
Is In India and the lnSp't " ON lii+
urgent repairing trip can hope for no
shady tree nor for 4 single stream OF
water. As u general rule, with few
exceptions, his way lies over glnrlna
salt or stony deserts, or ! asst scorclJpJ
barren rocks. In winter the cold ~
the mountain ridges and elevated plail'
is as trying ~, and perhaps more 'n,r'
gCrous, than the heat Of Suminrt. often
the passes are SO blockadcd with snow
as To make further progress Impossible
and the wrctchcd carnvansclIlls, or hoy
els, where shelter can bc found, liz
twenty or thirty miles apart. Tho
inhabitants have sclnt love for tn,
stranger, aud the difficulties Of procur
ing help, supplies or lodgings, Is indie
scribablc. After struggling In 2 bitter
" cold temperature all day, the nights
may have To he passed la some wretch
cd hut, or even cave, with barely
enough fuel or food 10 support life
The marvel Is that man can he go
to face such work. Comparatively lit
tie interference with the lines by tn
natives Is reported, but IN one cas-
Il man who had n grldge against tn
| local governor, who had Il spite agalns
| the government, tried TO damage III
| line. He smashed three or four post,
| but forgot to cut the wires. The safel
| of the line lies in the fact that IL ma
nj any moment be used to bring thcI
in communication with the outer worlt
| Only last spring Il typical ease Occur
| red, when revolution took plac
owing TO bad government In the Prov
iIcp of Ears. The people. MS us,la
flew TO the representative or the III
do European telegraph and sent mes
sarcs TO the shah, knowing that in til
way their complaints would he heard
Another time some rioters seized III
telegraph clerk, held him TO his desR
and insisted on an immediate repi.
from the shah; others climbed the posi-
and said II they did not get an ahSWe
within ten minutes they would snlasl
tho line: and 1t was only by the Official
excellent knowledge of the language
thc pcoplc. and the esteem IN whici
no was held. that he was able to III
,Iuce them TO wait until the petltloi
could be presented to the shah,
Tbc Chemistry of Cleansing.
| Prof Lewis, in his lecture on "Th'