SPEAKING POSTCARDS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 297, 19 June 1909, Page 5

SPEAKING POSTCARDS.

Speaking postal cards are likely to give a fresh . impetus to the decline of tho letter-writing art These are simply postable talking machine records, and their general use would make it necessary to have talking machine booths at the correspondence centres. The person wishing to "write" a card would ent^r. one- of tho booths and dictate the message to tho machine. The record thus made on tho card is unreadable in the usual transmission through the post, but on being received the card is taken to another postal booth, and a machine therein -reads off the words like any phonograph. These .speaking postal cards, made to withstand considerable hard usage, have made considerable headway in France, where they have just been invented.