AN AGE OF INVENTIONS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 216, 1 November 1888, Page 3

AN AGE OF INVENTIONS.

EDISON’S REVOLUTIONISING WONDER A TEST FOR THE P IONOGRkPH. THE WINGED ARTT > BE SUPERSEDED London, October 27. A phonograph has bcm special y c<> tnjefed for the purpose of recording M Madronos speech at the Liberal Home Ru -monstration which it is proposed to hoi n Ri.miogham on November 7 The speec vili afterwards, by means of the instrumen be re-enunoiated in London and various cities in America. Great interest is bein taken in the experiment.

We gave a full description of Mr Edison’s phonograph a short time back, and there is no doubt that great things are expected to be achieved in the near future by this marvellous instrument. Another ingenious invention of which a description will doubtless be acceptable is— THE TELAUTOGRAPH.

Professor Elisha Gray, of Illinois, has obtained letters patent for a combination of instruments called the “Telautograph,” consisting of a transmitter and receiver. It is designed for transmitting messages by wire between distant points by the sender in his handwriting, thus doing away with the sailled operators. The invention is based on the discovery of a new principle in cod trolling the new current, whereby a pulsatory currents produced, all previous attempts to transmit handwriting having been based on the use of a variable current. The invention

is reported to work so accurately and rapidly as to give promise of being commercially successful. Several attempts have been pr?T?? u ?v ma Js to devise an apparatus of this kind. Mr Edison had so far succeeded 6 or 7 years ago that at Menlo Park, with a laboratory apparatus, autograph messages were sent with entire success, so far as the reproduction of the message at the other end

of the line was concerned. It worked at a fair rate ofspeed, but not so rapidly as was desired. His other work drew him a wav from his investigation at a time when the apparatus seemed to be approaching perfection. Professor Gray has no doubt reached * rru ai xT other means. The New York corrc-r oudent of the Dai'y News states that an immediate effort is to be made to apply Professor Gray's new invention to.commercial purposes. The Judge of the Circuit Court of Richmond, Virginia, granted a charter for the purpose of working the invention. The charter is granted to a company the general objects of which are declared to be “to promote, establish, and maintain the general business of a telegrahio, • d „..?u e , lant ?-® ra ? h . io Co . m

within and throughout Virginia and other vates and territories of the United States, by the use of e ectrical or other devices suitable or applic ble to the same, and particularly by means of what is known as the telau»?r»phio system invented by Professor Jtiisha Gray, for the transmission of messages and other communications written out in ordinary script, or otherwise suitably prepared for such transmission, and the automatic reproduction of the same at the office J’iJL Datl . On ’ ’ Doludin g a»y extension or °, e ‘? enta of , the Baid "ystem hereafter devised for or added to the said telautographs, and any other telegraphic or telephonic device to be used in conjunction witii «a° h other or separately, as may be found expedient, and any other methods of electricai intercommunication to be used if desired The charter further authorise the purchase and use of lines poles and wires, fixtures, stations, exchanges, or other families, including submarine cables, to work the system. The capital of the compan> i not dol nor raOTe th " 1a.000.000d01, divided into shares of lOOdol each. The company may hold 10,000 acres •• I «nd in each of the states and territories. Tne pnncipal office will be in Richmond, wi»n 1 -ranch offices where needed. Some of the largest capitalists in the country are said to be interested in the enterprise.