The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-03-31
CLOCK AS WATCHMAN
NEW ALARM THAT rs CONNECT
ED WITH GRAPHoPHoNE.
A Late Invention That VIII Cause
the old-style Alarm Clocks
to Be Done Away
With.

The man who "did not hear the
alarm clock" will soon be compelled to
evolve another excuse to account for
his hardness The failure to hear the
alarm clock is good old story that
has served many, many midnight rev
elers and sleep-loving gentlemen well.
1t was invented at the same time the
alarm clock OF commerce came into
vogue, and it bids fair to die hard
death. But 1t must 60. The progress
Of civilization has turned another page
in the clock business, and the newest
entry Is a machine which Gabriel might
use If he does not care to personally
blow the last trumpet.
A native OF Detroit is the man who
has accomplished the thing that will
make the manufacturers OF the old
style alarm clocks 30 into bankruptcy
He does not pretend to disarrange tho
mechanism Of the old-style eight-day
clock, but he has put forward a new
as watehman and wake the owner
thereof at the proper time. And the,
inventor needs no guarantee that his
device viii do what he claims, either.
II is so simple the patent officials. who
recently granted a patent on the thing,
wonder that 1t has not been thought
of before. Mr.. Heinrich has simply
combined the usefulness Of the clock
and the graphophone, and the wonder
is worked. The graphophone is super.
imposed, as naval constructors say. on
the clock. A lever from the releasing
mechanism Of the talking machinery
connects with the machinery Of the
clock The lever can be set for any
time, and the graphophone springs set.
When the hour hand reaches the time
indicated by the lever the springs in
the talking machine are released and
the sleeper Is brought to wakefulness
by the clarion notes OF any revelile
that might suit his fancy The mill
tary man would probably put on a cyl
lnder on which the old Cant get 'em
up" is repeated to the end Of the chap
ter; the gentleman whose social duties
keep him out so late that an alarm
clock Is necessary to bring him into
consciousness In the morning might
slide a cylinder containing the lines
that reproduce tha sinuous strains OF
Strauss waltz. der Morgen Blatter."
OF the disciples OF the saint Of Bayreuth
might prefer 10 put on a record Of the
bird song from "Siogfried" and start
10 the day with the twittoring Of the
feathered tribe as Wagner interprets
them
The possibilities Of the new device
are SO great that It seems TO have no
limitations. The busy merchant might
record an appointment for a certain
hour and remind himself OF his engage
ment by having the clock repeat Il 10
him at the proper time; the housewife
might talk her needs into one OF the
waxen cylinders and let the clock re-
peat them for her az the hour abe usu-
ally starts to market. aud the father
Of the popular daughter might inject
Tosti's "GOod-By" into the inner work
ines Of the tlmepiece. which. set at
decent hour, might suggest something
70 the young men who help 10 swell the
coal and gas bills There are hundreds
OF little things this new-fanrled alarm
apparatus viii do. The whole thing
Is 50 simple and so compact thak an
families win no doubt get one. The
clock and the graphophone are entirely
separate and distinct as 70 operating
mechanism. The talking machine Is
simply placed in position on top Of the
clock. and only simple alterations are
necessary in the operating mechanism
Of the latter 70 admit the proper work
ing Of the former.