THE FUTURE OF THE PHONOGRAPH.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 75 (Supplement)

THE FUTURE OF THE PHONOGRAPH.

“lElngineeringl” :—|“iS‘ome years ago, great efforts were made to introduce the phonograph into current office work to replace the stenographer; the attempt failed, however, for many reasons too obvious to repeat, and it does not seem to us likely that any better success will attend the advent of the ‘commercial phonograph.’ The use of records for teaching languages is, on the other hand, successfully employed in the United S-tates, especially by the Intel-national Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and language records are now largely made and sold in sets. Each set comprises twenty-five records, arranged specially for accent; and intonation, while forty text-books complete the set. In this direction alone the phonograph appears to have found its really useful purpose ; in evei-y other sense it must be regarded as an expensive toy, the demand for which appears never to fail.”