TELEPHONING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1132, 11 January 1884, Page 3

TELEPHONING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

!’there i|, an inwentor- in the vilfft^e'^f' 1 who b^ieVea’|e t i to _apparatiu ipjpi ; telephone business and materially'’increase: '; the usefulness of the-Atlantic .His ■ j iwipe,-i^-W-eb«Wr r ftill%ftV ?i W jfniig A i a little room, in which were tatpgajbiaipm appariltllSj'ahti of ■ wires stretched between thq ytallß. Orv'the in'the roortf-stood a disc about ’ 13in, in diiynetec; Vrejecting from the centre of "one face of the disc was a funnelshaped abject. Jiunning. .intb-tbe table from the lower edge of the disc were a number of wires. On tie table, arranged in a row a short distance from the wires, were 10 black cylindrical induction coils. That is what the reno- ter noticed. This the inventor said -.—“ That funnel-shape I object in the centre of the disc is the resona tor. You see that U not like the speaking tube of an ordinary telephone. The larger part of the funnel is hold to the-m-vutn. : The volume of the voice, instead of being concentrated iu a small space, as in other telephones, is spread over, and causes the whole metallic diaphragm to vibrate. You will notice on the opposite aide of the disc I there'are 10 deviating points, which are held-in position by 10 rubber arms, .that may'remind, you somewhat of a cnulefisi. .When you talk through *Ke sneaking-tube or resonator, the meta lic diaphragm, or popularly speaking .the tin.plate, viorates. ; -The vibrations are communicated to the 10 deviating points or needles.' The need es penetrate through rubber’- cushions into small brass .cylinders contidhiag grifnalated . carbi-fn.. The cylinderp anet jeeuiadin their places' ib.bfa-s.arfris the i rim «f the ‘disc' 'that"'holds Um- jmetallio nlate. Ten WiriS run arms from the primaries of the-iud notion coil?, and return. tq.. thgjr: ATfeY IjJ aeoodea(*v wires from ■ -are c#fi4'l l^a^Tu'y'Rwitcni^oirr.sqgipl,*^ ; to V3S!!iy Wea-«» desiied.iu ciH-»3.-'iT4MjTg'\wfer ] ies, ill) inl ll etioU-'-iSift, ‘arid v ‘a 'cines- • Jifp-ting number of daviutiffg points,.acted v noon BiH)iß^ij9g^yi|yaSC*i«llS'>Ml^!lllife t '' tin pldtei'may .thus be concentrate 1 U xVu a * single wire. This has never been done befo r e. 1 claim that con- ' versatiuu may be carried ’on oyerjan, ord nary telegraph .Hrfe, with miy''telephone, between points 2600 mitemapairt./. Ttyelve non Is a’minute is "considered a fair rate of transmission over the Atlantic cable,, ", By using the. telephone 120 .words a minute mav be transmitted. if a shorthand-writer is employed as a receiver. All the imoor taut features rf my invention are new. By the use of the granulated -arbon and the ruhbi-r cushions, Into which the n-eßes penetrate, I secure steady, uniuterruptible sound.” ' • ■ . - Mr.Gillett went into an adjoining room,, -where he had another telephone connecting with the one on the table. The receivingtube of the new apparatus was put into position. Afters, few minutes it began to emit a series of distinct “ hellos ” in a bass "Voice After interning to the room, Mr Gillett said that 10 batteries, 10 deviating points, audio induction coils have about six times the power of one b >ttery arid a corresponding number of other electrical agencies. He thought the time was not ( remote when we could not only, apeak across the ocean, but also see those to whom we might be speaking. He : said that an experiment with the new telephone probably wiiull be made iu 10 days be-, places in Maine and Massachusetts, 500 miles apart. .