Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-03-08

moueSt laboratory close to half a century
ago MI Edison has not stopped even for
moment He has gone on at a mad pace
which we wonder any mortal could hold.
he has been tireless and undagging. Hun
QfeuS OF d1SappolntmentS have StOpDed him
Tor the moment, but they never stunned
MN they never set him back. They but
to gain the object he had in view Each
failure added fuel to his genius, for he
ever has kept uppermost the thought of
try try again" Had not this thought
been dominant perhaps even yet we might
not have known the comforts and the bless
lngs OF the electric railroad, the kineto-
scope, the monograph, the quadruplex ~tale-
railroad.
It is matter of history that the phono-
graph was given the world as a complete
followed failure
In all cases only his almost Incredible
working powers and an equally wonderful
Indifference to food have made it possible
for the world to float in ease and comfort
given to the people fortunate enough to
1--we IN the present century,
PHoNoGRAPH IS HIS PET.
While the quadruplex telegraph is one of
EdlSonS greatest inventions, so far as
Is his pet because he knows what fund
giving the world and also because it is the
greatest scientific wonder of all. 1t makes
the union of sound, motion and matter,
person talks, band plays, or somebody
air makes tiny waves on the record so that
the same sounds can be reproduced over
ana over again days or years afterWard!
The working model of the first Edison
phonograph is in the laboratory of the
wizard at Llewellyn Park, and only by COM
pairing this with the amazingly perfect ma
chine OF today can one realize the years
of labor that Mr.. Edison gave to this one
instrument.
Mr.. Edison knew that his general plan
was right that a machine could be made
to reproduce the vibrations of the human
nd hn fn1anc Of
HOW firm were his beliefs and how strong
were the foundations for them can best be
shown by an Edison monograph, which
pieces of mechanism the world ever has
seen. On the following page. is an illus
tration of the modernized Niison phono-
graph, which, however, gives you only a
faint idea of the instrument as it really is
II you have never seen nor heard one of
these wonderful machines YOU owe it to
yourself to do So
MR.. EDISON STILL HARD WORKER.
Mr.. Edison, although 60 years old, has
not stopped trying yet. nor will he stop
BILE for him to go further The wizard still
bubbles with enthusiasm over his projects
and his plans which are as yet in their
infancy. Day after day he works with UNI
ceasing energy on his new electric storage
battery, which presently is to reyolutionize
is workne also to urodmce eectric nnwer
directly from coal When that discovery
is made the steam engine and boiler will
sible to have airships, and Mr. Edison says
he expects to see them flying before his
death. Such discovery will make it pos
Sible to drive great ocean greyhoundS across
the sea at the rate of fifty miles an hour
three days across the Atlantic from shore
to shore.
If these things are given to the world
they will come, in part at least, through
the power of Mr.. Edison's brain conceptra-
ton, and his ability to go days without
sleep and almost without food.
SHOUTS "sPEZIA" FOR DAYS.
One of Mr.. Edisons assistants tells the
story that in working out the photograph
twenty hours day for six or seven months
at a stretch shouting the word "Spezia"
against the wax cylinders in his effort to
The intense and prolonged labor which
suited 70 his new monograph scarcely can
be realized. Let the man who has phono
producing the word "Spezia" in the ma
chine and he will see at once how success
crowned the efforts of the determined
Mr.. Edison has an amazing memory, but
even great and far reaching as it is he never
is without his note book and he never fails
to jot down Immediately every idea that
hits. him., no matter where he may be at
the time it strikes He rip f mgc
he has preserved He builds his ideas up
one after the other like s.one wall, a
note on one particular su ~ here on, on
two necessary steps in his Inventions. Dc
casionaIy one finds in running through his
note books the single word "Hurrah,' hand
printed clear across the page. This vocifer-
Gus exclamation appears directly under a
minute record of the various stages of prog
ress in the quadruplex system of telegraphy
and the incandeScent electric light.
MANY IDEAS THROWN AWAY.
At the BOTTOM of a notation however,
one sees frequently the talismanic letters
IN G." Whenever an item bears these let
tiers no other mention of that particular
thing ever is made The general belief
concerning Mr.. Edison seems to be that
every idea which flashes through his brill
liant set of brains is a good, tangible idea,