Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-12-28
SEEING BY TELEPHONE
Dr.. Sylvestre Claims That This
Is Possible.
A FAIRY TALE, SAYS PRdRABELL

Away With the TELEGRAPH 6Ad VIII
Only Cost About &3.75-Colots, Fig.
ures and Details Thrown Upon a
shect-EclI Regards It a. nm Alb.
surdity.
DR.. Sylvestpe, the inventor who claims
to have found out how to see by the
telephone, has just described to the
Paris correspondent of the New York
World his discovery, which. he de
clares, was matter Of chance. He
said:
"There is no reason why, as soon as
telephone cables are established be
tween Paris and New York, we should
not see our friends there as easily as ]
see you.
81 have already seen the Marseilles
Telephone Exchange from this room by
means Of my apparatus, and have
chatted by telephone with NJ. Mougeot,
the French postmaster general, watch
ed his establishment and described his
appearance, his clothes and his Office as
we tailed.
81 cannot work my apparatus for you
yet, because am in treaty with the
French postoffice people, and the meth
cd is so simple that If showed it to
you you yourself could 60 away and
make an apparatus just like 1t.
81 may well confess do not alto
gether understand my own invention.
discovered it quite by accident, al
though it acts quite perfectly and
shows colors Of all kinds with absolute
faithfulness and very wildly. l am
not scientist enough to explain how or
why it acts exactly as it does.
''Six weeks ago was in my labora-
tory enameling some teeth and was
sitting over big stove. There was no
light in the room excepting what the
stove gave. The walls Of my labora-
tory are white. My job was long and
wearisome one and as we have
'theatrephone' at my fiat, had myself
connected with the opera and was lis
tening to Griseldi while waited for
the enamel to melt.
"Suddenly noticed cclors and fig
ures on the wall in front Of me. put
down the 'theatreopnone. They dis
appeared.
~ took it up again, and again saw
the figures and this time much more
distinctly Then | beth heard and
watched the whole act of the opera sit
ting in my chair before that stove.
1.-THE spectograph was invented. l
had found out how to see by telephone.
For Il fortnight worked over my in
vention day and night. Then on the
2lst Of last month (NovembeiD. my ap-
paratus being perfected. wrote NJ.
Mougeot. the French postmaster gen
eral and asked him to receive me. ]
have seen him several times. | am
now in treaty with the French govern
ment for 'cession' of my invention.
for which want $5.000,000.
Il have tried the apparatus several
times since under all sorts of circunl-
sluness. and it has never failed me.
s .ace isanHihilated by the spectograph,
n Il The ,h;ng itself is 50 absurdly simple
that The apparatus will only cost about
$...l5. Ny invocation practically does
auay with kilograms. Put a written
g;ss 1T the I.oiidon end Of Il wire, and
= ~ correspondent in Paris will see ii
gs.te d.st.netiy at his end. AS soon as
n; CO iav: with the French govern.
N vt for ,5.0a0C00 is signed i mean to
ge al immense show in the Calerie
w..o c;.:'e to come. There On an enor
nous Sheet VIII show what my ap
para.us WI Co."
This is what Or. Sylvestre showed
the correspondent: A small circular
mirror with hole in the center into
which is screwed a tiny electric light
OF l.lo candle power. This is fixed to
q ts!vphone's microphonic Pate by an
india rubber band. a penclllik instru-
Elelit connects the current with the APP
pute,iis. Two acids are allowed to niS
drop rs drop in torpedolille machine
throws what Dr.. Sylvestie terms a
phosnhorescent fame Oh the looking
glass connected with the poles and
pencil. ard u sheet of any white semi
transparent tissue Placed before the
glass shows the room in which the
other person is teieph3ninG. no matter
how many miles away that person may
be.
Professor Alexander Graham Bell
the inventor Of the telephone. recently
read with much interest the cable from
Paris telling Of the alleged discovery
by I}r. Sylvestre of process that en-
abled him to see Ivy telephone. After
reading the dispatch Professor Fed
made the following statement to the
Westminster correspondent OF the above
mentioned paper:
THE idea OF seeing by telephone has
attained its majority. 1t is now TWEEN
ty-one years of age. Seeing by tele
phone or by telegraph may be within
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