The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-25
Automatic Enunciator Invent
ed to Put Him Out of the
Way of Tips.
IAN INGENIOUS INVENTION
DEVICE WILL CONFER MORE 40.
VANTAGES ON THE HUMAN
FAMILY THAN PHoNoGRAPH--
TRAIN CALLER TOGO

Chicago, Ill. June 25-No longer
will guests in hotels be annoyed by
the rasping voices of bell boys shout
ing the names of those who are want
ed at the telephone Or the desks, no
longer will travellers be in doubt as 10
trains the announcer is brawling out
for their benefit, and no longer will
persons in a large auditorium be I'M
able to hear the speaker, no matter
how far away from the stage they are
sitting, for an autoamtic enunciator
has been perfected whereby a person
speaking into the mouthpiece of a tel
ephone in an ordinar.- tone of voice
building simultaneously. President
Joseph Harris of the Automatic Elec-
trio company. who is testing the new
invention. declared yesterday that a
person talking in New York might be
heard by millions Of people in Chicago
clearly and distinctly.
The invention has been installed in
Mr. Harris office which is situated
on the third floor. and the mouthpiece
OF the instrument has been placed on
the fifth floor. in each corner of the
large office, near the ceiling is a small
enunciating trumpet similar to the
horn of a graphophonc.
Voice Distinctly Heard.
Speaking in the mouthpiece in low
quiet tone the words could be dis
tinctly heard in ev - corner Of the
off IL
| but one trumpet could be heard at the
same time. There was no overlap
ping or reverberation of the sound to
confuse the hearer.. and even when
standing half way between two of the
instruments only one of them could
be heard. AS one moved about the
room the voice could be distinctly
heard first in one trumpet and then in
another.
When the enunciator is installed in
hotels. a person may be located in.
stantly in any part of the building,
and the bell boy system of paging will
! become unnecessary. A woman shop.
| ping in large department store may
| be located by hes husband immediate,
| ly. A person witnessing ball game,
| may, by speaking into the mouthpiece
transmit graphic verbal description
OF e-ery play that is made to fifty
five-cent theaters at the same time
In large depots where the announcer s
voice is oftentimes indistinct because
of the echo. instruments stationed in
every part of the station will ade.
quately inform travellers of the de-
parture of all trains.
| New Company Ready.
The new company which is being
formed to push the invention will be
known as the Automatic Enunciator
company, and Mr.. Harris announced
yesterday that machines would be on
sale in less than thirty days. Already
several hotels in the cource of con
struction have made arrangements fol-
the installation of the new device. A
circuit of wires from Chicago to Pitts
burg and back has been successfully
tested to prove the distance at which
the machine is available.
Mr.. Cole, who is taking care of the
business end of the new concern, sait
yesterday that every day he finds new
uses to which the machine can be put
and said that manager of a large
dance hall had already announced
that he would install them to call ou
the figures.