MR. EDISON'S NEXT INVENTIONSEEING A MAN BY TELEGRAPH

Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 284, 30 November 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

MR. EDISON'S NEXT INVENTIONSEEING A MAN BY TELEGRAPH

The following is the latest story, and the St. Louis Globe Democrat telLs it : — The inventive faculty of the man is strikingly manifested by a little conversation that Mr. Pulsifer had with him on Friday last. It seemed that Mr. Tom Richeson, of School Board presidency and the Collier lead and oil works, and Mr. Pulsifer, of the St. Louis lead and oil works, are both members of that notable institution, tho St. Louis Telephonic Exchange. Mr. Richeson's telephone is located in a closet, and a few days ago he was telling Mr. Pulsifer of a very curious telephonic dream that he had. He dreamt that Mr. Pulsifer had " called" him on the circuit, and that he got up and answered the call— a very proper thing for him to do. Right on the side of the closet, however, was a mirror, which Mr. Richeson faced as he put his ear to the telephone, and, said Mr. Richeson, "As I listened to the voice I Baw Mr. Pulsifer's lineaments reflected in the mirror as plainly as if he had been actually present in the room." So when Edison was here Mr. Pulsifer told him the story of Richeson's dream, which, by the way, may become equally famous with Richfer's. Edison listened, and said that he had been working on that very thing. He had been able to send waves of sound and heat through the telephone, and was now experimenting on the waves of light, and, said he, "Before a year I exEect to be able to make you see a man a undred miles away."