Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-01

TO convey the image Of pussy cat KEEP,
IN an adjoining room through the wall
into 4 hall and 10 throw II on screen
before tho delighted audience. The
dispatch chronicllng the discovery was
full " technical electric terms and
Il also contained several proper names,
sounded like that Of the alleged in
ventor. Or II. r. Liz (heliXl OF some
such scientific word
well that dispatch went the round
Of the press and coupled with 1, came
The statement that Prof Bell the In
ventor of the telephone. was interested
IN II and that he had filed IN the
Smithsonian institution a sealed pack
age containing a full description with
illustrations Of his investigations. Now.
the fact vas that ! had filed pack
age. but II related tn my investigations
~ TO the photophone or the convey
ance Of sound by means OF rays Of
light. How Il became associated with
the helix matter | do not know. Al
any rate the moment my name was
published IN connection with IL, an
indignant letter was urinted I'm a rep
utablc English scientific journal. signed
bv two we'll known professors. ANrton
and Perry. stating that neither I nor
the mythical Dr. H. +. Liz had any
right 10 claim the first discovery oi
transmitting images by wire. and that
they were the real discoveries OF The
process 4 Rc1k or two later other
claimants appeared. They came forth
from different parts ~ the United
States and from England
zone OF the claimants was wen
known New York electrician, Mr. saw
yer, who. like the rest, asserted that
he could see through a telegraph wire
and could send any Kind Of an image
he wished In that way from one place
10 another. Another published an ar
ticle IN the Scientific American with
Illustrations " his invention. ! an
sWered nothing IN reply to such state
ments. I had never made any eX-
periments Of the kind. and had no in
ventlons 10 claim After a short time
n appeared that the claimants them
selves we're I'm the same situation.
They we're frauds, pure and simple.
and some Of them undoubtedly had
nut forth their statements with the |
idea Of flling interferences II the in !
vtntion as alles ID should prove TO be
a practical success"
ELISHA GRAY AND THE TELE.
PHONE.
How about Elisha Grayr"
Prof Gray made his claims. ! be-
lieye. al the instance Of his LAWYERS
and largely through the influence OF |
he directors OF a great telegraph COM |
pany who then feared that the tele- |
phone might injure the telegraph. He |
had, however. fortunately for me writ |
Ten me letter OF congratulation upon |
earning that | had made my discovery |
ana dlsclaiming IL for himself. and |
his letter was brought forth as evil |
ience with the other testimony before |
he courts. Prof. Gray and myself |
we're working Al multiplex telegraphy |
" about the same time: and his dis
,ovsries were so much like mine that |
was for time afraid OF him and |
thought he had some way of getting |
AZ the secrets OF my laboratory work. |
Il was for that reason that | changed /
my laboratory. When | afterwards |
met Prof Gray realized that hIs
character was such that he could not
have done anything OF the kind | had |
Imagined and ! regretted my unjust
suspicious" |
TELEPHoNING WITHOUT WIRES.
viii We ever have a wireless tele.
phone Or. Bell?" | asked.
Il think II possible. although the |
distance OF It's use may be limited. |
some experiments once
made not far from the Cambridge OBJ
ssrvatot-v naar Rnston W. had dri,,a,,
Ivo pokers into the ground few hun
ired feet apart and had connected them
by wire. As soon as the connection |