TALKING CLOCK

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 16

TALKING CLOCK

"We ajl -know the ticking clock. But Rome.&as gone one better and has hecomeYacquarntedj.with ■ the ."talking clocks'?..: says the ■''Daily-Express.'' The'telepliohe" tionipany has discovered a machine that wiliteirtho time by telephone without involving the services of girl operators, who at present tell the time to 15,000 persona every hour. -/.-It--.works' like a gramophone' except that instead of using records for reproducing the human voice it utilises the magnetic registration of sounds by means o^ a steel i wire. This wire, which is threadlike in its fineness, acts' in. front of the poles of the telephone, and gives an exact reproduction of the Hour and minutes 'as hitherto given by the telephone operator. . A combination o$ a. repeater clock and a talking machine with photomagnetic registration will in future report the exact time in a way that "engaged "and other signals we reported now. All you have to'So in Borne when you ijyarit"' ta Kho* ;thV not to Jook at you^watehj>uf"to 4ial the proper number on your telephone, and a clear, metallic voictii wijl tejl'you the hour and the m}nute.-'' ■' [-- - The Invention will shortly be on view at the central bureau of the Tyrrhenian Tolephonc Gompany, Bdme, but the name of tho' inventor is being kept secret. ■