The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-23
SUCCESS AGAIN
CROWNS LABOR
Of EDISON /!

frat Of complete success
Turning from his work on the bat
terry and other electrical inventions,
Mr.. Edison has devoted himself during
these four years almost exclusively TO
refinenents in the manufacture of the
photograph.
Today he is ready To announce the
PERFECTED phonoGraph----the new
Edison with the new type Edison
records,
Real music at last"
The above are the words OF the
wizard.
The inventor himself has said that
Il took him thirty-four years to PER
FEET the talking machine. Now the
new Edison, with the new diamond
point producer. may he obtained either
in cylinder or In the disc records.
Indeed n Revelation.
The new Edison is indeed now rev.
elation.
Il marks the climax IN absolutely
faithful reproduction Of sound.
The human voice and the sound OF
every Instrument Of the band or or
chestra ere now given forth with such
perfection that ii is Impossible 20 dis
tngu!sh the reproduction from the
original Turn the auditor away from
the instrument and you will find that I
even the tic with the finest musical
ear will have difficulty IN distinguish
ing between the reproduction Of the
Edison record and the singer or the
Instrument reproduced
Proud of Hts Achievement
MI Edison IS proud of this achieve
rrent, fas the photograph among al t
hts great Inventions. has always been !
his PET and hobby. While the new
battery offered him monentary award /
far in excess Of the phonogra pm. and /
while his moving picture inventions +
were actually bringing him In a for f
tune every day. he turned from these (
10 achieve his ambition TO produce tho +
perfected photograph.
The newspa per stories we have read F
Of Edison tncessant Ia bors have been
IN no wise exaggerated. He has been I
working from nineteen TO twenty hours +
a day~-eom etlmes forty-e!ght and p.
seventy-two hours at a etretch--prnc-
ticaiiy all Of the time on the phono- F
graph.
Sleeps in the Laboratory.
With him has been a squad Of four
or five men. and the cots OF those men,
including the cot Of MIR Edison. have
been in the laboratory, 81 that they
and Mr. Edison could catch a few
hours OF sleep occasionally.
The inventor went SO far az 10 in
spect every original record himself.
The new numbers now coming out
have all, each and every one Of them,
been personally selected, tested and
approved by Thomas A. Edison him
self He wanted nothing but the
-A-c1t~-tttt -~s--- rr-t,
Plays All Disc Records.
In addition, however. the instrument
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adjusted To play every kind Of record
besides the wonderful new Edison re-
cords, That is, American as we'll as
foreign makes Of disc records can all +
be played on Edison'. Gc| instrument;
aud, on account Of the superior CON
structIon Of the horn, these other
records. while of course not equal 10
the new Edison records, sound de-
cldedly better than they do on the
old style Instruments for which they
were intended.
Thus with the new phonograph Mr. I
Edison enables the people who have
bought old style machines and "a sup
ply Of old style records to utilize their
old records and also 10 keep up with
the latest Icy getting the new Edison
records with the new Edison instru-
nent
Hear 1t and Wonder
lou must near the new fSQaS0n
records to REALIZE what has been
accomplished in the art Of mechanical
reproduction,
Every defect OF the past, every me-
chan!cal difficulty with which other I
makers have wrestled 10 the very best
of their ability. have been overcome by
the patience and sagacity OF this great
est OF all inventors.
Popular music OF the day--the vau-
deviile sketches sind comic songs
have not been neglected In Mr. Edi-
sons selections along with the choicest
Of grand opera and the finest chamber
music.
The new Edison records are made
OF an entirely new composition, abso-
lutely hard. which by Mr.. Edisons new
method made Il possible to mold into
the record every fine shading and sub
tie distinction IN the minutest details
OF the artists voice.
Recording Now Made Perfect
No needles-no wear. No scratch
no injury TO the reSeords-no record
deterioration from constant use.
Diamond Point Keproducer.
Mr. Edlson's new invention is based
In a large part on his new diamond
point reproducer.
In place OF the sapphire he IL now
using q diamond on both the new cyl
Under and the new disc records.
This diamond point reproducer
made with a d!aphram Of entirely new
construction has resulted IN Il repro
duction Of sound that has never before
been APPROACHED by any mechan-
teal means
The selection Of the material for the
dlaphran occupied almost "a wear and
q half Of Mr. Edisons constant atten-
ton. He tried mica In IA thousand
thicknessess. then einglo and double
and other layers OF paper various
metals and an almost infinite variety
uf com positions.
How Mr.. Edison Experiments.
One Of his assistants one day ID
him that a certain result could not be
accomplished
IT can't be DONE WIS the report
made TO Mr. Edison
Don't say can't" Mr.. Edison re-
piled. you haven't tried II every pos
sible way as yet"
II haven't" the assistant inventor
exclaimed, Il have tried II 200 diff
fererf ways"
We'll, then try II 1000 waya try il
1900 ways-and then let's try II once
more" Mr. Edison replied
This reply summarized all Of Mr.
Edison~~it tells In a sentence the story
OF Edison's lie success.
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