The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-26
EDISON INVENTS
 !. PHONE RECORDER
Has a New Device to Fix Words of Both Speakers
 for Future Reference

West Orange, N. J., May 26.-Thos. A Edison has announced the .perfec- tion' of the telescribe, a combination of the telephone and photograph; long distance dictating machine that doubles back.
 It will give to both parties to telephone conversation, although thousand miles apart, each a phono- graphic trecord of what both have , said.
 MT. Edison regards it's commercial possibilities almost unlimited, for he believes it will do away with millions of letters a year in the making of business agreements. The phono- graph makes voices easily recogn1- gable, and MT. Edison is confident that teleseribe records will be as e1o- quent arguments for good faith on the part of business men as signed letters.
 MT. Edison has experimented with the TeIescribe between his Orange plant and his offices in various parts of America and so confident is he of its success that a large number of the machines are now being built It was in the June. 1878, issue of the North American Review that MT. Ed ison predicted a machine that would record telephone, conversations He has been working on it ever since.
 
 are not complicated. It is used with the ordinary telephone, but with two receivers. One is fitted to the arm of dictating phonograph; the others is used in the ordinary manner. A record of what both persons say is made at each end of the line. A stenograp pher writes out what the rec ord says and copies are, interchanged for confirmation. That concludes @ business arrangement which might in ordinary practice take a. dozen letters and weeks of time.
 Will Take Message For You ''The telephone is used a million times an hour" said MT. Edison to- day, Showing that science has pro- vided the telephone for the most rap- i'd transmission of intelligence. But with the Telescribe we will now be able to put our exact spoken words into writing.'' He also pointed out portance where the person wanted was not at the moment available, any one could press a button and take the message on the phonograph, to be read at leisure by the person for l whom it was intended.
 The Telescribe may also be used as 1 a long distance dictograph, and ma chine on it's principle could be used for taking court proceedings, though that would call for great development as the. ordinary photographic record can take only 1,5O0 words.
 | William IT. Meadowcroft, one of MT. Esdisons Iieutenants, said recent l 1y that there was no danger of the 1 Telescribe putting many stenogra- phers out of work. You see,'' he ex- plained, someone has to write out the record, but of course the Tele- scribe means fewer letters in the fd- ture.'
 i An Earlier Device. l MT Edison's TeIescribe is not the first invention for it's purpose. In 1900 Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish in ventor. contrived the te1egraphone for l the reproduction of conversations at a distance. Its principle was the re- tention of magnetic impressions by a | copper wire. The length of wire for an ordinary conversation was about three and a half miles. Each i'm pression on a fraction of the wire I Represented a sound. and when the machine was reversed the talk was reproduced. William J. Burns, the l detective, gave it prominence in 1912, when he reproduced a conversation | by the President of the Common 1 Council of Detroit 7n which the of11- cial was alleged to have offered to sell his vote. It was used to record 2; the debates of the Medical Congress in Boston in 1912. Speeches by Presi-
 dent Roosevelt were several times re- produced by the telegraphone.