Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-28
HISTORY OF TALKING MACHINE IS THAT OF
 RAPID RISE IN USES
First Invention By Leon Scott in Fifties Describes Manner in Which it Was Used By It's Owner.

WASHINGTON. D. C., May 27-The ponograph is nearly un,versal; 1t IS found in homes, clubs, and offices, and a remarkable feature of it's popular ! fly and usefulness is that these so- cial and commercial uses have come about in less than thirty-elght years. ,t first speech alone was registered and repeated in the so-called talking Hachine, but a broader field was soon opened, and today the reproduction ot vocal and instrumental music has
 become the most popular feature of tlis sound reproducing instrument
 Fortunately it has no complicated lmechanism, a point which adds to it's lie and tends to lower the cost of manufacture, thus making is available
 70 the general public \ fine series Of instruments and records is to be seen in the division of mechanical teaching of the National Museum at Washington
 The first invention connected with the photograph was Jne aaonauta- graph of Leon Scott m 1857. which Lad for its purpose the recording of sound vibrations upon a cylinder rotat- ed by hand and moved forward by a screw. The vibrations were recorded
 en a carbon-coated cylinGer by a very 1 light stylus attached 10 vibrating ! diaph-am. The record thus made ,ould not be reproduced. but was used merely Co study sound waves. The stylus and the vibrating diaphragm became. however, important feature of the talking machine. A machine Of this type, built by Rudolph Koeng,
 as secured for the Smithsonian ln- Stitution by Prof, Joseph Henry in 1866, and deposited in the Museum collections.
 : Mir. Charles Cros has the honor of being the first 10 suggest the idea of mechanically reproducing speech; he l presented a paper to the academy Of 1 Science of Paris in 1877, but this pap.
 or was not read until Thomas A. Edi- son had reproduced speech itself ! In the course of some experiments in 1877, conducted with a telephone transmitter, MT Edison discovered The could reproduce articulate speech. 1 At this time he never raought of it
 independently but simply as a tele- hone repeater, not unlikely tele. ! graph repeater which would repeat messages on a secondary circuit ex- tending to a greater distance than the 1 initial vocal utterance would reach. ' lt was not until one of his collaborat. ors. Mr. Edward II. Johnson, who was
 on a lecture tour demonstrating some successful telephonic experiments. mentioned the telephone repeater ln- 1 vented by Mr. Edison, that anyone realized what had actually been ac. complished The Buffalo papers. how.
 ever ip reporting the lecture announ. ced the invention of the Talking
 Machine by Mir Edison. After featur- ing this in his next lecture. Mir. John. son cancelled the remaining ones,
 and hastened home Co ass.s, n per, l lccting the machine, which he had realized would be a comparatively
 simple thing to do Arriving in New. ark, he exhibited the news clippings
 10 MT. Edison and asNoc F ne could make such a machine Mir. Edison re. piled that he could and after secur.
 ing some material in New York they produced a machine in 2f hours It
 consisted of little revolving cylinder
 turned by a crank, a simple vibrating diaphragm and needle. and a piece of
 tin foil which they wrapped around the cylinder The words, Mary had
 Little Lamb, were spoken into the
 machine, and then it was immediately
 get back and the cylinder reyolyed again to see if it would repeat the
 words, which it did, not as clearly as
 can be done today but quite distln
 guisbably.
 | This was ihe original ph6noeraph
 and Che starting point of au invention
 which, notwithstanding all MT. Edi
 sons other successful experiments
 has carried his name anc game ou1
 side the more technical circle into the whole civilized world.
 The first machine completed for public exhibition was shown iu 1878