NEW USES FOR THE PHIONO. GRAPH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 288, 6 December 1890, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEW USES FOR THE PHIONO. GRAPH.

Stexogeaphv Superseded. Mr Edison has, according to a Nei.v York correspondent of the "Times," succeeded' in improving the phonograph so thjit it can] be worked by a water motor as well aa' electricity. The correspondent says' j—Thig' wonderful machine ia rapidly superseding stenography for business correspondence.; Several hundred phonographs are in use i n this city alone, and have proved em inently, satisfactory. Heads of firms and confidend tial clerks now talk their letters to the phonograph, which re-dictates there, to the typewriter. The waxen cylinders can be stored away, and are more reliable In case of dispute than shorthand notes. Indeed, ib will not be long before the phonograph pushes stenography completely iato the background. An important meeting was recently reported at Chicago by tho use of two phonographs. The reportor stood a few yards from the epeakers and repeated , the speeches into one of the machines until the cylinder was covered by the mystic indentations. Then the operator turned to the other machine and talked while the firsb cylinder was removed and placed in the hands of the typewriter. The experiment) was so successful that a phonographic reporting company has been formed which advertises its ability to report law trials, conventions, and meetings at much cheaper rates and with greater accuracy than under the old system. Nojannoyance is caused by this application of the phonograph, as tha operator can follow the speaker in almost) 9 whisper.