Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-05-09
The KfnetoEraph.

pays much attention to you. That is
one Of it's dangerous destinations.
"If you stay there another minute"
said an unclean, nondescript object,
very calmly, you will be broken into
small pieces and carried under
ground"
'But can l see Mr.. Edison?"
Il don't know. The old mans around
somewhere. Go to that red building"
Easier said than done, for the big,
red building begins to move timidly
away the moment you get near it,
stops when you stop, advances when
you advance, and is altogether will
of the wisp of architecture.
Finally it hove to and was boarded.
1t is an office and they pressed but
ton, found out Mr.. Edison's exact To-
cation, said he would be along pres
entity, and then began to break up
mountains.
Breaking up mountains is a very
simple process. 1t is begun, of course,
by pressing a button. A huge bowlder
is detached from the solid rock, car
ried on a movable hod as large as a
barn, dropped upon a pair of huge
iron wheels and shivered into coDble-
stones. The cobbles, whirled aloft in
trays or troughs, come down dust, and
the grains of iron they contain are
picked out magnetically. A three-ton
bowlder is splintered into fine iron in
three minutes, the refuse going into
the dust hole.
The Wizard as He Works.
FINALLY the great Edison appeared.
He was terribly dirty. He looked, so
far as attire is concerned, like a
navy. He was all CRIME and dust.
But his face was that of a bright,
bluc-eyed youth, beautifully blue eyed
and smiling. Not until he took his
vile. ash-covered hat off did the gray
hair reveal that he is no longer young
in wears. His face is almost free from
wrinkles. =.
1--WE are progressing, progressing,
he said. when informed that his re-
treat had been invaded for the pur-
poses of getting information concern
ing the latest and the greatest of his
inventions, the one which is being
ca eerly. awaited and which very few
have had a chance to see. That is the
combination of the photograph with
the kaleidoscope, the contrivance to
which Mr.. Edison applied the term
kinetograph on this occasion.
1.-THE object of this machine, he
said, sis to afford the spectator two in
yentions in one. That is, two senses
are simultaneously appealed to. Sup
pose, we will say, an opera is to be re-
produced. The photograph already
reDeats the sound. The kaleidoscope
affords O view of the movements.
Now, however, we wish to combine
the two and combine them far more
effectively than ever their distinct ele-
ments have heretofore been rendered
by separate instruments.
"Thus, if one wished to hear and see
the concert or the opera, it would only
be necessary to sit down at home, look
upon screen and see the perform
ance, reproduced exactly in every
movement and at the same time the
voices of the players and singers, the
music of the orchestra, the various
sounds that accompany performance
of this sort. will be reproduced ex-
actIy. The end attained is a perfect
illusion. One really hears and sees the
play, because the conditions precedent
to the suitable impressions upon the
eve and ear are obtained"
Mr.. Edison's hearing has improved
very much in the past year, owing,
perhaps, to his perfect physical con-
dition. He spoke we'll and distinctly,
and is never, apparently, as much i'm
pressed with the wonders he performs
as are his workmen.
He was asked if ordinary sights
and scenes. tho Pope in the Vatican,
or q speech at mass meeting, could
be as effectively handled.
"Far more easily" he replied, chat
is the least difficult part of the prob
lem. Even now. the spectator could
be treated to perfect reproduction Of
Gladstone making Il speech to the
house Of commons. This would be
shown of life size and, so far as the
spectator is concerned. would be the
real scene. For every word. every
gesture of the grand old man, the
gestures of each spectator md tho
sounds made on the occasion would
h. REPRODUCED exactly. And. Of course