Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-02
Success Again Crowns Labors
 Of Edison

Many years of continuous anplica- tion to the working out of one idea has again brought Thos. A. Edison the fruit of complete success.
 Turning from his work on the bat tery and sother electrical inventions, Mir Edison has devoted himself during these five years almost exclusively to Fefnemants in the manufacture of the phonc graph.
 The new Edison phenogFaph, with the new diamond reprodueer and the new indestruetible disc records were first announced a year ago, but since then Mir. Edison has been applying himself to its ultimate perfection.
 It is being demonstrated every. day at the music room of The Portecus & Mitchell Company. Demonstrations are given every day.
 It marks the climax in absolutely faithful reproduction of sound.
 The human voice and the sound of every instrument of the band or or 1chestra are now given forth with such perfection that it is impossible to dis tinguish the reproduction from the original Turn the auditor away from the instrument and you will find that even the critic with the finest musical ear will have difaculty in distinguish ing between the reproduction of the Edison record and the singer or the instrument reproduced.
 Proud of His Achievement.
 Mir. Edison is proud of this achieve ment; for the photograph, among all his great inventions, has always been his pet and hobby. While the new battery offered him monetary rel<Ard far in excess of the photograph, and while his moving picture inventions were actually bringing him in a for tune every day, he turned from these to achieve his ambition to produce the perfected phonegraph.
 The newspaper stories we have read of Edison's incessant Iabors have been in no wise exaggerated. He has been working from IS to 20 hours a day. sometimes 4s end 72 hours at a, stretch practically all of the time on the phonograpln
 The inventor went so far as to 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 best --the very best.
 Plays All Disc Records.
 In addition, however. the instru- ment is so constructed that it can be easily adjusted to play every kind of record besides the wonderful new Ed ison records. That is. American as well as foreign makes of disc records can all be played on Edison's new in strument; and, on account of the su- peEier construction of the horn, these other records, whiles Of course, not equal to the new Edison records, sound decidedly better than they do on the old-style instruments for which they were intended.
 Hear It and Wonder.
 The new Edison records are made of an entirely new composition, abso- 1utely hard, which by Mir. Edison's new method made it possible to mould into the record every fine shading and subtle distinction in the minutest de- tails of the artists voice.
 Recording Now Made Perfect.
 No neediea-no wear. No injury to the reeoFds.no record deterioration from constant use
 The Edison records fer a good many years have been known to last many, many times as long as any other rec ords made, and the new Edison record, as far as we have seen, shows abso- lutely no wear at all. The laboratory has tested some of the new records, having single record played day and night-as many as 1900 tines-and then the music is still as pure and true as when brand new.
 Diamond Point Rspredueer.
 MT. Edisen's new invention is based in a large mart on his new diamond stylus repredueer.
 This diamond point reproducer, made with a diaphram of entirely new construction, has resulted in a repra-' duction of sound that has never before been APPROACHED by any mechaa- ical means.
 The selection of the material for the diaphram occupied almost a year and 8 half of MT. Edison's constant atten- tion.a He tried mica in Q, thousand thiclxnesses, then single and double and other layers of paper, various metals and an almost infinite variety of composition.
 How Mr. Edison Experiments.
 One of his assistants one day told him that certain result could not be accomplished.
 Tt can't be dene.' was the report made to MT. Edison. 8
 Don't say 'can't,'e Mir. Edison re- piled, you haven't tried it every pos- sible way as yet"
 T haven't!'--the assistant inventor exclaimed. T have tried it 200 dit- ferent ways"
 Well, then, try it 1000 ways. try it 10000 ways-and then let's try it once more," Ar. Edison replied.
 This reply summarized all of Edison -it tells in a sentence the story of Edison's life success.
 Whether the laboratory actually ex- perdnented with 0,ae9 different kinds of material for the diaphram is not irw but 1,;-