The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-14
The DEAF NOW MADE TO HEAR
AND THEIR JOY ~ HEARING
MAKES H.OMEN WEEP.
Tests Of the "y>ccoustlcon" an Invention
by miller Hutchinson To Int ensify
kound-.It breaks silence Years Leng
for Poor Deaf. and Dumb Children

nv Niiller Hutchinson 10 INT enstfy
kound--r breaks silence Years I.ens
for Poor Dcaf. and Dumb Children
Science has made 1t possible for even
deaf mutcs to hear. Tho fact was demon
s,ratAd yesterday afternoon at the labora-
tory az Miller Reese Hutchinson. a young
electrical engineer at IA West Thirty
secoad street, in the presence of a few
physicians. tho Duke Of Newcastle and
fifteen or twenty men and women promi-
rent in fashionable society In New York
The company was lssembled TO witness
tests Of the ACQUISITION an invention OF
Mr. Hutchison, upon several inmates
OF the New York Institution for the Instruc-
ton q the Deaf and Dumb.
The "Accoust icon' is n Device involving
all Tho important principles Of the tele-
phone plus additions including Mr.. Hutchi-
cons Inventions. the effect OF which is to
give such intensity 10 sound waves that
they will penetrate cers that have never
before heard a sound.
The device is in three pieces. which may
l." carried in the pocket. That called
tho receiver which in the telephone would
no called the transmitter-is q vulcanized
r'hbcr disc about three inches in diameter
To its hack Ia attached a hook by which
il may be suspended from a waistcoat
pocket The reverse face Of the disc il
followed and In the hollow certain gases,
rho composition being known only to Mr.
Futchison, are Theoretically sealed.
Inc other two pieces arc the earpiece.
wlich corresponds to the receiver Of n
telephone. and the battery. The latter
IL sbout three inches long. two inches wide
and half an inch thick. Ii contains several
cells. which supply the electric current.
Wires connect the three pieces of the ma
chine.
When Mr.. Hutchinson Is operating his
invention he slows the battery away in
his waistcoat pocket. The sound that is
70 he transferred. whether IL he the voice
or sone other sound. Is caught by the re-
ceiver and intensified before il passes to the
ears of the subject.
This was the instrument which carried
10 the ears Of several Of the inmates OF the
deaf mute institution Yesterday afternoon
the first sounds they had ever heard. Tho
first subject experimental on was a youth
Of 10. He was born deaf. dumb and blind.
Two years ago. when Mr.. Hutchinson had
perfected his first apparatus. he tried II on
rhis boy and the lad learned for the first
time what the three words, papa.
mamma and .hello' sounded like. He
did not hear the words again until yester-
day afternoon and as soon as he heard
them. he was able to repeat thep-as well
as q deaf mute can who has learned to ar
tioulate at all-after Mr.. Hutchinson.
The expression on the boys face when
hs heard again was 10 pathetically Joyous
that many Of tho women were affected 10
tears.
Ths ssoond subject to be experimented
upon was Mary Mc('irr, II year- old. II
was very much Of an anniversary day for
h6r. On the day Of the great blizzard,
March ~. 1888. she had IS good hearing
speech and understanding a. any girl Of
her years In New York. On that day,
returning from school. she caught cold,
and the cold developed maladies which left
her deaf, dumb and blind. She recov-
cred her speech to a certain extent after
she was sent TO the institution. but she had
rot been able to soe In fifteen years. and not
in al that time. until yesterday. had she
heard q eound.
The ear piece was adjusted to her ear
ard Mr.. Hutchison took up a transmitter,
which fitted over his nose as well as his
mouth. in order that the subject might
catch the nasal sounds as readily A. the
others. Then he inst ructed Prof Van
Tsssel. who cams down from the institution
vi'h the young folks. TO tell Mary, in the
.lgn language. TO repeat the words she
hcsrd. Then Mr.. Hutchinson said to her
ne same words he had spoken IN the
previous subject. Al the first word the
grl looked startled. Tlsen her face lighted
up with Q emile and she promptly repest~d
'Isps.- So u was with the other words.
Then pianist struck UP a march. the girl
listened intently for nearly Ave minutes.
: 10 seemed Ia be Ios, to everything but the
sound Of the music that flooded her ear.
Ther the PIANIST stopped playing and the
s'rl laughed outright Then she elapsed
hsf hGIds ia she.r delight
'NhAis the natter inquired Prof.
Van Tss-el
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