Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-01
EDlsON's LATEST INVENTIONS.
A New Phonograph-The Wonders of
the Ixfnetoxraph.

INC Autobiography.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
The Edison photograph works at this
place are expected to resume operations
next week. The skilled employees win then
begin turning out a new style of phono-
graph differing in a number of particulars
from the machine now on the market
Thomas A. Edison has devoted himself to
the new inveation at his laboratory for
some time. shutting himself UP night and
day, like an old monk in a cloister as he
always does on such occasions He has
been successful, and the new Arrangement
VIII not only be sold at a cheaper price
than the old machine sells for, but the CYL
inders have been so adjusted that lust
double the former number of words can be
placed thereon. The old cylinders had a
capacity of 100 lines, while the new ones
viii receive 20 lines. New batteries have
been devised which. while much less ex-
pensive, are even more effective than the
ones now in use. The new batteries. with
the improved cylinders. give to the machine
the power OF increasing the volume of
sound, and also of furnishing double the
quantlty OF matter. Other changes of a
technical character have been made i'm the
instrument calculated to improve its ef-
fectiveness and to decrease it's cost
Another of Mr.. Edison's inventions, cal
culated TO furnish entertainment TO the
public, Will be put on the market in a short
time. This instrument is of the nickeI-in-
the-s1ot type of machine. has been called
the kfnetograph. and is intended TO outvie
the instantaneous process of photography.
In That, by means of the peculiar mechan-
ism with which IL is provided, series of
photographs, about forty to the minute
can be taken. So rapidly does this machine
work that every motion OF a dancers feet.
every twist or turn of a club swinger's
wrists and arms are reproduced The inn
pressfons are taken on a long strip of sela-
tine film with such rapidly and accuracy
that not the faintest motion of the per
FORMING athlete is missed. 1t Is the inten-
ton of the inventor 10 have the geIatine
strips manufactured at some central point.
In the same manner as the phonograph CYL
inders. The machines win be sold or rent
ed TO parties under the same conditions as
prevail with the monographs. Then the
gelatine strips will be inserted, and the
weight of a nickel, as II. drops through the
slot. sets the machinery in motion and the
photographs are flashed before the gaze Of
the behoder with such regularity that he
seems TO see the living subjects.
For the OBLIGATION Of party OF sight
seers at the Orange laboratory last week an
lmprovised barber shop was fitted up and
the services of nearby tonsorial artist
were secured. An attendant at the labora-
tory took a seat I'm the chair and the ma
chine was set In motion. The barber hath
ered his man, and then proceeded to shave
him In regulation style. While the barber
was at work several pretended customers
entered and one showed the barber a hu-
morous paragraph i'm a newspaper
When the strip of gelatiue was again
passed through the kinetograph every de-
tail OF the shave, every motion of the bar
ber's hands. each expression of the mems
faces were reproduced so perfectly and so
wel-timed that the spectators could see the
scenes repeated in the machine
AS yet the new instrument has no COM
mercial value, but the parties Interested be-
iieve that its possibilities as means of
furnishing amusement are unlimited. II
is claimed that by the use Of this machine
all the rounds OF a boxing contest every
blow in prize fight or other contest, can
be reproduced. and the whole placed on ex-
hibition at a nickel a head. BY this means
the hundreds of thousands who would wish
TO see the meeting between Corbett and
Mitchell can witness the encounter coun-
terfeited by the kinetograph on every street
corner within a week after the gladiators
meet