Edison's Latest

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 122, 8 April 1890, Page 3

Edison's Latest

New York, January 30, — Edison has just invented a machine which separates iron from tbe ore. It is one of the simplest and at the same time most ingenious devices for saving labour that has been invented. The machine consists of a crib surmounted by a hopper. By a system of magnets the iron is separated from the ore while failing from the hopper to the bottom of the crib. The magnets, of course, aie arranged under tbe hopper, but not directly under it. They are placed on the side of the crib, so that as the crushed ore filters through the hopper the tailings fall directly to the bottom without beiug diyerted from their course, while the iron, on . the other hand, is attracted to one side by the magnets and is caught in a pan. The inventor has also on an invention for taking photographs by wire. This invention is destined to rival the telephone and the phonograph. It is worked very much in the same way as the telephone. Instead of transmitting sound, however, in some unaccountable way which Ediuon refuses to tell, it transmits light, by means of which a photograph can be taken of a person when sitting at remote distances. Edison has succeeded in getting some very good impressions, but ha 8 not perfected his invention.