The record-union., 1899-11-10

NOVEMBER 10, 1s9ss
Science, Invention
and Discovery.
"A newly married couple of Portland.
Me-, who are both deaf and are trying
housekeeping without servant. have
devised an inseni0ns substitute for a
door bell" says Electricity when
a caller presses the electric button ali
the lights in the house flash up, and
his presence is made known"
Dr. Daniel Garrison, M. D., the eth
nologist, died at Atlantic City, N. j.,
on July 31st, at the age of 81 years.
he was born at Westchester Pa, grad
uated from Yale College in 1858, and
served in the medical corps of the ar
my in the Civil War, receiving the bre-
vet rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 1T
was, however, says 1.-The Scientific
American las an anthropologist that
Or. Brinton was known all over the
world. He was most deeply interested
In American ethnography and ethnolo-
gy, and his knowledge of American
languages enabled him to publish Sc
ries of books that won him world wide
reputation for profound learning"
German physician, according to
La Gazette Medicale." Liege. Belgium
mas been investigating the subject of
the maximum OF physical force
and details results obtained from TO-
O00 separate experiments made with a
dynamometer Of his own invention,
Represented graphically the average
strength Of man in sound health Is
SHOWN by nearly parabolic but irreg-
ular curve, whose apex is at the age
OF about 81 years. An adult of II
years should be able without difficulty
to raise weight of 126 Kilograms OPT
pounds; at 70 years his dynamometric
strength is IA Kilograms (317 pounds.
at 81 it reaches 200 GAO pounds). de-
scending to 154 $3.50 pounds) at 40
years, to 149 1928 pounds) at so, and to
IL GAG pounds at 20 years From
similar experiments made on the natives
OF Togoland it appears that the muscu-
lar strength of negroes-contrary to the
general opinions nearly equal to that
of the white race
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post:
Ray Stannard Baker tells for the first
time the true story of Thomas A Edi-
son and the invention Of the phono-
graph Mr. Baker visited Menlo Park
recently to secure information for his
Boys Book on Inventions. which the
Doubleday & Mcclure Company are
going to bring out this fall. Mr.. F,di-
son, who has grown very deaf of late.
denies himself to most callers, and Mr..
Baker was obliged to secure his in
terview through the medium Of w. s.
Mallory, the inventors right hand man.
who went with him into Mr.. Edison's
private office. They found him in a
characteristic attitude, his fingers
thrust through his thick hair and his
head leaning on his hand
Mr.. Edison shouted Mr.. Mallory.
II heard an interesting story of your
invention of the photograph the other
Sunday in Brooklyn. 1t was in, church,
and the preacher said that when you
We're a boy you had your ear one day
to the ice, and heard in the distance
the sound of skates He said that the
idea first came to you that way
Mr.. Edison raised his head
"Did.a preacher say that?'' he asked.
eyes"
'Bosh! Now TIL tell you how it hap
pened. My modelmakers all worked
by piece in those days, and when I
wanted model made always marked
the price on it. In this case it was
So. I had the idea of the photograph
in my mind, and drew my design and
gave 1t to a workman named Kruesi,
who finished it in thirty hours
''Kruesi fitted the tinfoil on the cyl
inder and brought the machine to me.
turned the handle and recited:
Mary had a little lamb,
It's fleece was white. as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
Then set the cylinder back to the
starting point and began to turn the
cylinder. At the very best / had ex-
pected to hear nothing more than a
buzzing confusion, but to my astonish-
ment and awe the machine began to re-
peat in curious, metallic voice:
Mary had little lamb,
''Thus the first words ever spoken
into the photograph were these four
simple lines of Mother Goose
The idea of the photograph had come
to Mr.. Edison with a flash of inspir-
alton, and the machine proved it's mar
velous possibilities on the first trial
Few inventions have ever been con-
ceived or carried out SO successfully.
''Kruesi's So machine" adds Mr.. Bak-
er, which could not, now be bought
for hundreds Of dollars, is preserved In
the Patent Museum at South Kensing
ton, England
"a London parish" says THE Hos
pital," has put forth a well intentionec
paper on the precautions which should
be taken by the public in order to d.
minish the diffusion of tuberculosis;
and has given therein an account of the
tubercle bacillus which is distinctly
funny. Readers are gravely
informed that the bacillus in question
is so minute that many millions of
them could stand on the point of a
common sewing needle This appears
to be plagiarism from the Mohamme-
dan account Of certain angels; and it
would be better to adopt q more COM
mon and certainly more truthful way
of assisting persons who are not famil-