THE NEWEST WONDER.

Evening Star, Issue 4284, 18 November 1876, Page 1

THE NEWEST WONDER.

Sir William Thompson, the learned ; President of the... Physical Science section of the British Association, at Ctfag- ? gqw last month: told an attentive janf. ! admiring audience hW,in a recentiavestigation of the United StateßTelegraph Department, he saw and heard Elisha Gray's splendidly-worked electric telephone actually sounding four mes-' sages simultaneously on the Morse code, and equally capable of sounding *> yet four times as many yriih very -v immoderate improvetnents of t;r he saw Jdisoii's automatic V Wegi»nn " : delivering .1,615 words in 57secs--..1i0w in the Canadian Department he heard ' r "To. be or not to bef recited through the electric wire ; and .how, scorning i monosyllables, the' electric articulation , J rose-to higher flights, and gave au<|ible -,, f passages taken at random from the New York newspapers, such as "The Senate has resolved to print a fcnousancL extra copies;" "The Americans in London have resolved to celebrate the coming Fourth of July," and a.'number : r T of other, utterances. .-,?' All this/' Sir-. William continued, "my>-own. ears'* heard spoken to mewith unmistakeable .'- ' distinctness by the thin circulardisci armature of' jubl; such another little electro-magnet as this which -I . hold in my hand. TKB T words were shouted in * loud and clear voice by my colleague, Professor* Wats rp\ son, at the far end of the lineyliolding * his: mouth ploje to.a stretched iiaen*.-^: 1 , brans carrying piec* i? v* iron, which was thuß made to p^rfbri^ v in the of : air electa ' magnet, a circuit with the'liiie, mblons proportional tp the sonorifio motions of "These are indeed marvels, su&qfc^ J&&m< ,M»tej£L~«» .hairof the of forty yeara ago stand mend, performed,' '-"' three centuries sinfle, woAild, have ,r p posed-,se peril of being burnt alive as^wieardfc^;*^--;i