The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-05-24

Washington. u. G.. May 22.-The
monograph b. nearly universal. 10 Ia
found IN homes. clubs and Offices
ana "A remarkable feature of its pop
ulartty ana usefulness ~ that these
social n commercial uses have
come about In less than ~thirty-eirht
years. At first speech alone was
registered n repeated In the So
called talking machine, but a broad
er field was soon opened. and today
the reproduction Of vocal and instru-
mental music has become the most
popular feature Of this sound repro.
ducing instrument.
Fortunately IL has no very compli-
Gated mechanism, a point which adds
20 its life and tends TO lower The cost
ot manufacture. thus making u avail
able To the general public. A fine
series Of instruments aud records is
IL" be- necn In the division of mcchan-
zeal technology of the National Mu-
scum 1t Washington.
The first invention connected with
al" ~phonogr1ph was o. ~phonauto-
graph 81 Leon Scott. In 1851. which
had tor its purpose the recording ui
sound vibrations upon u cylinder ru-
tatcd hy hand and moved forward hy
"a screw The vibrations were re-
corded on n rarhon-cuatcd cylinder
hy O. very light stylus attached To- q
vibrating diaphragm The record
thus made could not be reproduced.
but was used merely Co study sound
waves. The stylus ana The vibrating
diaphragm became. however. import
ant features Of the talking machine.
4 machine 81 this type. built by Hu-
dulph Koenig. was secured for the
smithsonian institution by prof Jo-
srph Henry in 1866. and deposited in
IN" museum collections.
Mr. charles eros has h honor ~
heiuE the first To suggest the idea ol
mechanically reproducing speech he
presented n paper To the Academy 81
Sciences Of Paris In 1877, but this
paper WINS not read until Thomas \.
Edison had reproduced speech Itself.
In the course OF some experiments
In ls77, conducted with "a telephone
~transmittcr. Mr.. Edison discovered hc
could reproduce atticuiatc speech Al
this time ne never thought of II In
~dependently. hut simply AZ "A tclo-
phone repeater. not unlike q tele-
graph repeater, which would repeat
messages ON a secondary circuit oN-
tending Co a greater distance thai
the initial vocal utterance would
reach. n was not until ~ Of his
cnllaborutoSs. Mr.. Edward IL. John
son, who Wns on "A lecture - n DEM
onstrating some successful telephone
experiments. mentioned the telephone
repeater invented by Mr.. Edison, that
any one realized what had actually
been accomplished. The Bunaio pa
pcrs however, In reporting the lee
ture announced the invention Of the
talking machine 10y Mr. Edison. After
featuring this In his next lecture, MT
johnson cancelled the rcmainins
ones. and FASTENED home 10 assist ~
lperfectlng the machine, which he had
realized would be n comparatively
simple thing 10 do. Arriving In New
ark he exhibited the news clipping
To Mr. Edison and asked II he could
make such n machine. Mr.. Edison
replied that he could. ana after SEE
curing some material in New York
they produced "a machine in q hours.
u consisted Of "a little revolving cyl
inder. turned by "a crank, a simple
vibrating diaphragm and needle, ana
a piece 81 tin foil which they wrapped
around the cylinder. The words.
MARY had q little lamb were spok-
en- into the machine, and then Il was
Immediately set back and the cylin-
der revolved again TO zee ~ Il would
repeat the words, which u did, not as