THE LATEST PHASE OF THE TELEPHONE.
. iMos^wdbderfaH s^ys an lihgHah writer,' is the latest telephonic invention, again from America. Just as the Morse telegraphic machine will print its own message on a strip of paper as an un. I failing i\ecois, % so, wifLMr. .JBdison's telephone pnb upon record its own utterauces, and be able, whenever te<~ quired, to repi'oduce the words', the voice, the very ; iuflgcjaap o|f the dea^j r and future ages may yet be able to hear^t|T§^ppwe^al r OTalror3s;of>M'r,j>Gh»6/: t stone, exactly as it flowed from his lips ; the ewe'etesfc ttbtes bf-Patti 6r6f Etelka' Geiater ; 6r th|e living words of Dean Stanley in, t.J36, pulpit, years after;, the. illustrious authors are dead and, buried. This most wonderful and incredible marvel is thus attained : No two human voices being the same, no two voices I Jjivo |b 4 Haine* n.nmber of -, vibrations];! J_svj}fns thgn, janjrojhe speaks ithroiigh .thK mouth-piece of the telephone, the .•vibratidtfs. c(f;. his voice are comnjuni-' cated to a 'metallic diaphragm, wliicb^ records th^W on,.a,slip of paper drav^n slowly under it by clockwork : by reversing the process on another instrument, and drawing the marked paper under its matalKc diaphragm, the oxaefc words and voice of the speaker are Weutibsillyirepifofluced. §0 f tbftt, ss(y PattifeingflitbokiJuaic of Juliet ftirough a telephone, the purest notes of tho diva are faithfully recorded by- the silent instrument, and we may hear of the amateur;©? .the, future purchasing a yard of Pftttiitlp^fatid./tTjet^upon re-i; tiring to his or ncr room, and by the pressure of a handle feast his ears upon divinest music. Verily, ;tbis is /thft most astonishing and extraordinary ;pictnjje thatj.the fTpavcb. of science hasr ' yet'fevealea to us ; and day by day we seem to be getting, nearer to the realisation of the startling words of' Mr Buskin, who, intone of Jiis c^arac*, leotttres il few dayri'ago, W'ourfd' "'up thus : " and I believe the day is not far off, when every man with his own ""TTt'tiTo elecfrical machine, will be able to Attira on 'God'.'" ! •' ' • :; '
THE LATEST PHASE OF THE TELEPHONE.
Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2749, 18 February 1878, Page 3
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