The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-16
WONDERS OF TELECRAPHY.
Oac Of the Latest Inventions OF the
Wizard Of Mcnlo Park.
THOS. A. EDISON, JR.. IN GALVESTON
lie Tniks Interestingly About the
Work OF His Father. HIS Chnrnc-
teristics, Devices, Plans, Etc.


galveston. Texas. February lS-'Thomas
A. Edison, Jr son OF the famous inventors
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of telegraph OF the Atchison, Topeka aud
Santa Fe railroad are IN the city. prcsum-
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PICK, recent Invention OF tue WiNaru vi
Mcnlo Park for increasing the capacity OF
telegram wircs thousb MIR. Edison. who
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here for his health, lie said In reference
to the new invention:
with 4, phonon,ex single w,rc running
$3.50, a,
oe'"oeh nero nn" ie'up'c' anu ""''"
In use at every station between the points
named can he made To do double service,
vr,,,,,,, A., ~ ,..,. ,,to,tor,,r with IN,
~ ~ ' wy
regular communication ne'"een "a" 'no
points along the line such stations as have
tho uhonoplcx can also uso the wire for
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''''si"Pn p"S'ss' a" o'"'' "''''
such an ILLUSTRATION may DC sNch' INV
phonoplex makes two separate and distinct
wiree ont of one wire. and II can be used
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uy just as many iv.'s "'"H ~ ., H.
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| and furoeii' l. !. ny Sho,os says na9
gwen sonu Sat'slhclion anu Wii n'upap'f
De IN use an a'ohs 'he hne Ne,S Huon,
"heh ASKED II ne lNeu WIN N.Y. lat"o.
| young MI huisu" ''p'Vu' NV
Orange part OF the time but ] am "a cd-
ison. y. j., more than am at home Ed
| son n. j.. is In the mountains twenty miles
! from Dover and about sixty eigh' miles
| northeast OF NV YORK CITY MY ihlhot has
n mine there ana we have monster mlll
and are at work separating iron ore from
| rock and sand by means OF magnets MY
| father has bern experimenting on the ore
/ separator for n long time. He is devotng
/ bis attention to that, to ray bulbs, to the
| monograph, to the projcctoscope and the
| lucandescent light just now. The mill We
have at Edison has capacity OF crushing
5000 tons of ore IN twenty hours. and by
means of the magnets We concentrate from
u TO 30 per cent of the raw material,
| Father has been working on this ore sepa-
rator five years. 1t is now almost per
| fccted"
concerning nj. father he said. "Iic works
olrhlc,n or twenty hours every day. II
donsn,, saom tn bother him Mt an We
hnvo IN wor,, lust Ms hard II no, harder
,hnn hc dnos lie has The advantage over
,'' h,na,,so bc bn. ,be faculty Of po,ng ia
,ioa,, ,ns, ,yhcn"-. M. Wishes When n
nu,,'' ,'9 o,,,,,s 10 Mn, ho ,ots 4, down II il
t,'s,n. ,ns,.,n, ha wants made hc
80 a'n,,,n,,, h,nds n 10 mo or ,o who.
u.ame u,dS'"'', n,,o,,S ~ q, ana ~ n,
WI ne WEI, Wv S a,u sosa mr. a, 4
heens ,es'. ne .''s Wv on I H. 90 as1ee,
,ap,u ann ai,epa VS. ~ ,.,, 4, a, hon,
ins''".is ,t ho" 49, a, ,a, IN four
man u" or"'p"i ni"'. Isl, "a o., ~, ri,,
Wh,ie ne ~ s,',p",s w ,nr,'nr,
ne mas uusisneu, hp 10 ~ ~. 80 eni,
nearly an cue ,'ino' .us' Nv" w ,,r,,'r,
sixteen OF cisntee'' MN u, Wv ,,,, ~
Ihey arc Inc mos, sN,lllu, No'n ,n " a,
electricians my father nht s-ilpon ap'e ~ ~
together They are experimenting ", Wv
time on things my iatner maps o., 10,