Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-09
THE, EMPIRE OF SPEECH
What Has Been Done by Improve.
80" .. mssnaa il tie Telephone. I'd e1"e :
IN - AQYanCe' IT, - : Ef'''a :.

Two or'a three recent important Inn
pro4emelks ofths telephone SHOW what
undSleveloped capacities still lie hidden
lin this wSHfdsrfuis far-talker Of modern
scie4eeJ In thefrst place, says the Cos,
mopPliIt4aH4.s'' it. Has become possibleeto
elimi nate other telephone; girl as p con!
meeting: linkss Of rather p connector OF
ink$,sbetWeenathe sender apdnthe re-
ceivSras Of y message. One can now:
itch on without her inter9spuon.
b II ,yduaXisht to- talk with a friend by this
anew SYSTEM YOU simply -lpok vi" his or
her, humber and then on dial, eF mina
Fiaeu4esswIehbeaEd, in your owl house
OF bffiee YOU turn the sindieatofnto the
,digits tepTFesia44tihsg that number" ,aAd
ii;mmedia lately .your.friend's abell, srings,
and, with8At 4 nnyy ,lfurthet Rtelfmii hAfies.
! YOU may begin your conversation. 1.-The
|eswitf Hihg 'mechahism at the central ex-
t,ohan sc shasr automatically followed the
moY@mSng Of YOUR sfHdieatofn.at home
and put you into direct comm unicait3q
y,WithIfhe dgsirfdsloint. Besidest fgiyes
|, d. aeAightful senseaof privacy ia a.tefeetl
phoH l. fAlE.' dMsfhanicaf' eonttivanoes
tt'RSssess md. ears. and mo- memo ries, aid.
haNi hgg tlothin Il 4 # make 40 blum
.ders.I GA u, - rs ~ ,rwn as, :.
f'ueBjt if the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. eXcites
gifsaat@ sffnf wsh aHT, another recshts,ihyen-
Itfo14the telephone,r that takes your
speech, keSpsSstt nhuttered If Your II friend
| tear 4ss"assoddHtsl a he.returns, whethsrtbA
7 INTERVAL be an houn or week,rmustdbe
regarded Az d marvel of marvels:" That
machine mayI consist either Of a. steel
i wirel wound on a revolving drum, Of Q
1'hard steel disk revolving in a horizontal
plane sApSvs tthe revolving; wire, pr
disk is PLACED lasmall electromagnetic acr
tuatadeBy the elephonecirc,nt. ..,All-the
varytngi Impulses that come over the
the speakers, FaiSe are impaired By the
littld mhgnet'lto the steel moving,ibe-
neathft, and they make upon ! that stesl,s
surface series of magnetic Impressions,
like .5nvisibfe' dots. each tofswhich pos-
| sesses. its Own peculiar polarity and de-
gree lof Intensity 1t IS just as # the
I steel were a.sheetof paper and the mag
net d pen and the magnetic impulses a
series Of alphabetical signs dotted down
on the pa pai only nothing is visible to
the eye But the hundreds of little mag.
netic poles at . there, though Unseen.
Fandl when thelwire or the plate carrying
these p. mystic sshierglyphics; is again
passed under the electromagnet tthei lat
| ter being ,poN .scqnnected with a te1e1
| phone receiver sthey reproduce exactly
! the same sihpnlssss that created them,
/ these impulses passing into the recsiv-
| er vibfatet,the. Speaking membrane and
give forth the, voice and the words which
4 they had storeds = .,w1 t@Fs
1 fhe,only, thing that man who has, q
telegraphome IN his Office needs to do is
to settle .apparatus going when he has
! time to- listen 20 it. and if any ef-h1s
fEifrienhs have been speaking to II while
The was out, orr busy. or asleep; their
messages Will llhs repeated /. ~ ~ I'll