The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-10
TELEGRAPH()NE
IS The LATEST
instruments Whereby Sweet
hearts Can Be Together
PHONOGRAPH NOT IN IT
Resembles Internal Machine
when in the Mail
PHONOGRAPH NOT IN |

What would you do II the poSIman
! should hand you at your address Il round
envelope inclosing a thin disc of polished
| steel? submerge it in a tub Of wafer and
| notify the Bureau of Explosives and com
bustibles?
Don't do it, Instead of being an in
( fernal machine it may be a letter by
| teIegraphone from your latest summer
finance. Place the disc on a receiving
instrument and hold the receiver to your
ear. You will then hear the message re-
peated-a long message equal 70 ten pages
| of closely written. criss-crossed and post
scriped chirography-jus as cleac as it
was spoken by her lips.
| There will be no brassy discords and
screenings or any Of the startling shrieks
of the average photograph, which some
/ times sounds like a subway explosion I'M
der a tinware factory. You will hear
| the sender's voice in almost perfect tone
and modulation.
The telagraphOne records, preserves and
reproduees all the infections and individu-
| al expressions of the human voice You
| even hear your fiancee sigh; you catch
| the lingering sweetness of her tender
| phrases; you involuntarily duck your head
| at her change of intonation as she says
she understands you have been taking
| that Van Clipper girl out to luncheon
| quite often lately.
How often have you called up Mr..
| Blank by telephone on important business
only to be informed that Lines busy
or Hes just stepped out" Soon you will
be able to call him on the telagraphone.
When your voice gets there and finds B1r.
| Blank out or busy" it will hide itself
in the shape of little magnetic lines on 4
! cylinder, and when Mr.. Blank comes in
it VIII speak up and repeat what you said.
The telegraphone is the invention or a
Danish electrical engineer, Mr.. Waldemar
! Poulsen, of Copenhagen. The invention
might be called a combination Of the
| telephone, the telegraph and the phCno-
graph. with improvements upon eacn.
But whereas the three inventions with
WHICH we are already familiar depend
practically upon electricity alone for their
operation, the telegraphone has harnessed
to work the still more subtel fluid called
| magnetism, which is really a wonderful
and important achievement.
The teegraphone is entirely a new idea
known only among scientists and cleo
tricians of the first rank. although the
machines are being rapidly manufactured
in Europe, and are extensively used in
Denmark and Germany.
The operation of thetelegraphone in its
several forms was shown and explained
to writer for the Sunday World Maya
zine by the gentlemen who are arrarg-
ing to introduce it into general use in
this country.
Several of the machines, which are
handsomely finished pieces of mechanism
OF attractive and quite simple design.
stood upon tables in the exhibition rooms
of the American Telegraphone Company.
at No. Is West Thirtieth street. One Of
the electricians in charge threw a little
switch and started the cylinder of one Of
them revolving. Then he went an ordin-
airy telephone connection in another part
Of the room and spoke into the trans
mitter the following message:
Hello. telephonei I want YOU to tell
the public through the Sunday World
what you can do. Other talking machines
balk at such words as Massachusetts
Mississippi Minneapolis and the like
now, show us how you san say them.
Also let US hear how you can count with
out getting your figures mixed. When
your advantages are known you will lie
talking continually. You are willing aud
ready to say a few words to US now,
aren't you? Good-by."
The message was recorded as delivered
upon a large. wire-wrapped cylinder by
a tiny electric magnet that travelled
along it upon a carriage as it revolved.
magnetizing the molecules Of the wire be-
meath its coins Then The World writer
placed his ear TO the telephone receiver
connected with the telegraphone and
heard the words repeated. The repro
duction was astonishingly accurate Every
infection was duplicated. Thus as a tele-
phone the telegraphone is a vast i'm
provement on the ordinary hello line.
Another form OF the invention IS the
ribbon telegraphone." This promises
much in the way OF practical use. as it
will transmit sounds-either speeches.
messages or musical performances in an
indefinite number OF multiples
As a rapid. simultaneous distributing
agent for telegraph news and stock and
market quotations Il seems TO be peculiar
Is well adapted 70 the requirements Of
the strenuous business methods Of the
day
IN connection with the ribbon" tele-
g-arhone there IS an Ingenious and eco
nornical device. The magnetic impress
sions are made upon an endless steel tape
turning upon two reels about six feet
apart After the sounds are recorded
upon and transmitted from this tape they
are wiped out" as you wiuld wipe writ
Ing from slate.
This is done by constant magnetic
ing current" from a permanent magnet
fixed at n certain point in the tspe's cir
cult. thus passing the tape along ready
for fresh impressions This IS nrsctic-
ally n ticker that makes its own tape
Wall street uses about soeoo pounds OF
ticker tape each year. The tsleEraphone
could furnish The same quotations in as
many places with one strip OF steel tape
about Twelve feet in length.
one very important use 70 which the
teiegraphone viii be applied is in train
despatching When an order : given Il
is repeated simultaneously in all the sta
tions along the line. There can ~ ~
NtffAttaSitNl " A-A-tFAAfS- -l-4ta-1 Ft-Nl Ft-
Ger Is mechanically recorded ST both the
issuing and receiving Offices.
II Is hard to see how there could re
any shifting 81 responsibility or Plea q
misunderstanding orders with the ;ele-
graphone in use By simply throwing q
ljttle switch with one finger the operator
could have his Instrument repeat ;he
original order as often as Re chose.