TELEGRAMOPHONE

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMOPHONE

NEW RECORDING WONDER. LONDON, Feb. 10.

A remarkable step in the science of recording and reproducing sounds by electricty has been achieved by Major Lionel Guest, brother of the Coalition Whip, and Captain H. O. Merriman, a Canadian electrical engineer. On Saturday a representative of “The Daily. Mail” dictated a message into a portable receiver temporarily placed in tho drawing room of Major Guest’s house, 52 Seymour-street W. At the other end of the wire in another room was a recorder which automatically inscribed tlie message on a gramophone record. In a few seconds the record was placed in a gramophone and the message was repeated with great clarity. Major. Guest claims, that the best results hitherto obtained in recording the voice or music over the telephone have been unsuccessful through being “blurred” or metallic in tone. “The development,” he said “has immense possibilities. I think in. the near future it will be possible for a receiver to be placed in a part of the hall where the speaker’s voice is hardly audible, say in Manchester, and at, the other end of the wire, say in London the message will be recorded verbatim by the ‘telephone recorder’ for instant reproduction through ear-pieces to the newspaper offices. “Jf the receiving operator misses a ward he presses a button and the line or any number of lines are repeated as often as he likes. “The key to the development is the ‘vibration motor,’ which receives the im pulses of the speaker’s voice and cuts the message on tho wax record. It amplifies the voice impulses to such an extent that the responsive movements of the instrument are visible to the naked eye.” . .. .