The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-22
as bald as a billiard ball-utterly and

 modernized Rip Van Wrinkle who has recently been dispensing medicine at Jennie Hamiltcn's drug store that he promises will make two hairs grow where only one was wont to sprout, even in the palmy days Of yore.
 The Postal people offered to bring cial benefit when they were advised of my determinationst withdraw but I shook my head sadly and said, T will give you an imitation of man going back to Bridgeport with all his traps and when he returns to his nut ton, he will have a motor of his own devising that will not depend on princes favors in the shape of what telegraph people call juice So l worked out this idea that will be made clear in a few minutes. My telegraph is now run by spring mo- tor which can be adjusted to any re- quired speed. It is the regular Mac donald spring motor-the best in the world and he put governor On 1t that spells regularity in every Ian guage that is spoken of men, I sim ply employ the electric current to keep this spring motor wound up. It makes no difference whether the cur rent is steady or unsteady, or whether the power is the direct Edison or the alternating Westinghouse current. All that is required of it is to work fast or slow, as it pleases and wind the spring motor when it has run down to a. certain point, and to cut itself off when the winding has proceeded to the proper point. Besides providing for the cure of a fault that was disas- trous to me it is very economical contrivance No current is used ex- cepting at the time the winding is done. The machine as I have said is run with a spring motor and its use is possible at any time, whether the electric current is available and util- ized, or not, as it is always feasible to use the crank. This double means of getting power is my warrant for speaking of the Electrophone as hav- ing duplex motor. It has taken me three years to perfect this mechan- ism aud I have often recalled a re- mark once made to me by IStilson Hutchins, the father of the linotype, as far as it's commercial success is concerned. Mergenthaler was the in- ventor but MT. Hutehins, assisted by Whitelaw Reid, the late William Hen ry Smith General Manager, for many years of the Associated Press, and a dozen other practical men made! a successful mechanical thing out of the inventors machine that was born in the brain of Mergenthaler and which would have miserably failed but for his less visionary associates and been swept into the limbo of discarded things where lie buried forever, so many of the undevelOped inventions of men who have died from hearts burst ing in their bosoms, from neglect and a lack of appreciation. And some have died of starvation. Dr. Holmes says-but goodness me: I am forget ting all about Stilson and his observa- tiOn that I used to recall as I tried out my motor and it tried me-both out and in. When asked why z, the linotype didn't work better, by one of the men who had contributed a share of the millions that were spent On the machine before it became a success, through it's finally receiving the approval of the Typographical Un- ion, and began to earn money, Hutch ins replied. Simply, the perversity of a new thing' Every inventor must have a warm place in his heart. for the man who. coined that Illuminating phrase.
 My motor having solved the tele- graphic problem, so far as it relates to the Phillips system, I began to ask myself why the same idea could not be adapted to clocks, musical instru- ments such as the Electrophone, cof- fee grinders and to almost any object
 
 machinery. I will now proceed to show you how admirably it has been applied to the instrument to which we will now listen.
 I omitted to say that I believed that the term .'bug' was first used by Ed. ison.s He is very original and I have oftep thought his explanation given in 1876 to a New York Times report er Mr. F. x. Schoonmaker, who sis now spellbinder and who visited Bridgeport during the last presidential campaign and spoke eloquently at Smiths theatre (that was) on the sub- ject of the tariff-that Edison's ex- incandescent development vented was as luminous as any that has ever been given: You see. Schooney'' said Edison, in his inof- fensively familiar way ''the current is generated and is sent out on the lights. Finally, in my system, it side the bulb, as near to a vacuum as we can get. You know nature ab- hors a vacuum and mighty mean of her, too, for if the vacuum were per- feet we would never have to renew burn until the most belated sinner had steered his wet and s loppy cat amaran into port. Now after having given this current a good horse to ride, in the shape of a copper conduc- tor, we drive it through this diminu- tive filament-in vacuum too, mind