The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
FACES over
The WIRE.
Boston Inventor Has Scheme to
Stop Telephone Interruption.
LOCKS CUT ALL INTRUDeRS.
-
EzperInsatsI Lines Equipped IN Bay State
alt ThsJ Are Glvag Satisfactory
SsMcs.

NJ uoston. May. 5.-No sooner has the pub
- prepared itself for the Introduction OF
DE promised telephone attachment oy
which you may see the person 10 whom
| Seu are taking over the wire when there
oomss the news that a device has been
| 1nvsntsd which insures absolutely private
onnvsrsaton by telephone.
~ ITS Is promised the elimination OF the
central Office operator who breaks In
every few minutes with the irritating In
Uufry. Are you through"
The inquisitive and curious subscriber
- yeur circuit who takes down the re-
oo1~s: every time any one on his line Is
Un1ied snd listens is also to be cut out
1ot only 10 it impossible for then inquisi-
dive suybscriber to hear what Is going
ovsg the wire 10 some one else, but he
eannot Interrupt by ringing the bell In
yeur ear.
OTHER TELEPHONES LOCKED.
30 long a. two persons are talking over
Ne circuit every telephone on the same
/ Nns other than the two, then In use is
ls6ksd. that is. tiie ben will not ring.
% much is promised by this invention
1hat Il may result In the telephone being
Ne maAns of exchange for the most secret
eomAlsnces. II also may tend to reduce
ths amount Of harsh words used over the
wire. since II is said that the central Of
/ 0es with its rasping Zine Is busy ma
o1ins vii be unnecessary.
The genius who has turned his atten-
Non to the telephone with such marked
success In u. g. Jackson. formerly OF Os-
elpss. N. H.. but now in Boston. Since
eeyhood Mr. Jackson has devoted a great
calculated to add TO the comfort and con-
yenience Of the public Many Of his pro-
auctions. which he neglected 10 patent,
oxe now In use.
For years he has experimental with
41ectx1city. and his attention was natural
~ attracted TO the telephone. He saw that
|1f he could invent an attachment that
would insure absolutely private converse
don between two persons on the wire, get
|y3d of the necessity for central office
|and relieve subscribers OF many petty an
{uoyanoes his rewards would be the de-
.mand OF many OF the present users OF the
tolephons for his appliance:
When he perfected the device he tried
tsupon the instruments Of a local com.
Hal his friends advised him TO come 10
B9ston and exhibit the invention to cleo
A 0Icjans. s
EXPERIMENTAL LINE EQUIPPED.
He equipped an experimental line in five
k2nees In Milton. where IL Is being ex-
UD1too 10 men famiuar with elcctrlcai dp-
p1iances. The attachment may be placed
upon any ordinary telephone. and its In
PRODUCTION may become general without
Ne construction of a special line.
Its effect 10 to transform the line between
- two persons using II into n private
wire. The current Is directed only
i0fough the two instruments In Use. and
&ste controlled absolutely by those who
ore using the Instruments.
BY its operation II is declared that there
oeta great saving In electric energy. since
}he force being thus concentrated cannot
perimental line has been made with view
20 testing its capacity for reducing the
Nr. Gleason, a we'll known Boston elec-
er1c1an. who has been In close touch with
1oIephones and their development from
their FIRST adoption. was particularly en-
thuslastic. and showed familiarity with
re invention ns which save his opinion spe-
Electriciauo assert that they see no rea-
oQn why. with this attachment. II will
net BE- possible to talk between long dis
t4nfe points with short distance instru-
on the line In Miltorn any one In SA
On the line In Milton any one OF the five
houses may be readily called and the call
a. regietered automatically. SO. in ad
11tion TO providing a connection at once.
1No maohine makes record OF the call.
The simplicity OF the attachment and
11Ie consequent ease OF understanding and
ODerating II are among the features that
o1nnnnehd IT, and which. doubtless, may
0Ad to its popularity.