The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-01-15
SEEING BY TELEPHONE
=. evlvestre Claims That This
Is Possible.
a.. FAIRY TALE, SAYS PROF. BELL.

psris Inventor Claims 1t VIII DO
Away with the Telegraph and VIII
on,x Cost About $3.75-Colors. Fig
ure, and Details Thrown Upon I"
o.-Bell Regards 1t ms an Alb
surdity.
nr srlyestre, the inventor who claims
4. have found out how to see by the
to,onbone. has just described to the
nor;s correspondent of the New York
vivid his discovery, which. he de-
',o.os was a matter of chance. He
said
nrbere is no reason why, as soon as
+o,onhonic cables are established be-
tween Paris and New York. we should
,o+ see our friends there as easily as
see you.
81 have already seen the Marseilles
rolpnbone Exchange from this room by
means of my apparatus, and l have
oba+ted by telephone with M. Mougeot,
The French postmaster general, watch
od his establishment and described his
onnearance, his clothes and his Office as
we talked.
81 cannot work my apparatus for you
rot because l am in treaty with the
French postoffice people, and the meth
cd is so simple that if / showed it to
Won YOU yourself could go away and
make an apparatus just like it.
81 may we'll confess l do not alto
.cetber understand my own invention.
I discovered it quite by accident, al
though it acts quite perfectly and
shows colors of all kinds with absolute
faithfulness and very wildly. am
NOT scientist enough to explain how or
WHY it acts exactly as it does.
"Six weeks ago was in my labora-
+orv 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 a long and
wearisome one, and as we have
.theatrephone' at my fiat, l had myself
connected with the opera and was lis
tening to Gr;seldi while | waited for
the enamel to melt.
Suddenly | noticed colors and fig
ures on the wall in front of me. | put
down the 'theatreophone.' They dis
appeared.
81 took it up again, and again l saw
the figures and this time much more
distinctly. Then | both heard and
watched the whole act of the opera sit
ting in my chair before that stove.
1.-THE srectograph was invented.
had found out how to see by telephone.
For a fortnight | worked over my in
vention day and night. Then on the
Dist of last month (November), my ap-
paratus being perfected, | wrote M.
Mougeot, the French postmaster gen.
eral, and asked him to receive me. l
have seen him several times. | am
now in treaty with the French govern
ment for a 'cession' of my invention,
for which l want $5,000,000.
Il have tried the apparatus several
times since under all sorts of circum-
stances, and it has never failed me.
Space isannihilated by the spectograph.
and thething itself is so absurdly simple
that the apparatus will only cost about
1915. My invention practically does
away with kilograms. Put. written
communication in front of the looking
glass at the London end Of wire, and
your correspondent in Paris will see it
quite distinctly at his end. AS soon as
my contract with the French govern
ment for 100000 is signed mean to
give an immense show in the Galerie
DIES Jardins Champs DIES Mars to all
who care to come. There on an enor-
nous sheet will show what my ap-
paratus will do