AMERICA'S WIZARD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 5

AMERICA'S WIZARD.

MR. EDISON'S LATEST DEVICE, . By Teleerapn-Pross Association—Copyright. London,-August 28. The newspaper "Observer's" New York correspondent witnessed a demonstration of Mr. Edison's kinetophone. The figure of a man was shown on the screen. He was seen throwing an iron ball to the floor, and at tho same time a crash was heard. The kinetophone also gave a perfect reproduction of other sounds, .including that of a motor horn., ■ Mr. Edison, who is now 63 years old, has been working on the invention described above for some time. An English journalist, after visiting him in November, 1908, described how he was inventing concrete houses .for workmen which could be constructed in, three hours. The writer added':— . "Mr. Edison is also experimenting with kinematograph iilms. in colour, but has uot yet been able to overcome the difficulty of photographing red, and it cannot be done instantaneously. He W lieves that the kinematograph as it will be developed will have a great educative effect. He is completing his simultaneous kinematograph and phonograph, and says that he finds no difficulty in making figures and,voices act at the, same moment, but there is difficulty An the perfection of the illusion. If the 1 speaking apparatus la too close to th't> moving picturo the effect of the voice is artificial. At present ho is obliged to remove the phonograph some 100 ft. behind the kinematograph. Tho difficulty will be overcome, and Mr. Edisqm belieyes that in a few years every village in the world will bo provided with its own kinemato-graph-phonograph theatre, and this will bo one means by which, Mr. Edison says, in combination with cheap houses and cheap transport, in the .study of which Mr. Edison is also engaged, the great towns will be broken up and tho population scattered back to the land."