New Marvel of Photography.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 September 1914, Page 2

New Marvel of Photography.

CAMERA PICTURES SOUNDS AND PRTNTS PROI )IfCE TFIKM.

MACHINE HEADS THE NEWS

: All that the phonograph and cinema and electrophone have given us may be left behind among things of "the bone-shaker" period if the promise made by Mr. T. H. Williams, an electrical engineer, be fulfilled. Briefly Mr. Williams has discovered how to photograph .sounds, and how to take any number of prints from his negatives, and. lastly, how to get the photographed sounds reproduced to our ears again. First the pictures of scenes and of the sounds that accompany them are taken by an instrument to which Mr. Williams lias given the name of " pliotophonie cinematograph. " The prints arc- then passed through another instrument, which has received the name ■•electric pneumatic audophoiio." This instrument reproduces the sounds which have been photographed as loudly and as distinctly as the originals. Speech is reproduced, says Mr. Williams, with clear and perfect enunciations, and music so faithfully tlir.l. the correct timbre of the inMr;si:ients is rendered, wilh sullicient volume and quality to /ill the largest hall. TH E '' PI T() TOO 11 AM APHONE.'' The next step, according to Mr. Williams, is the "Photograniophone." Thij, instrument reproduces speech, music, e^c.,-. entirely through the media of light, electricity, and compressed air. Sounds reproduced on this instrument are, says Mr. Williams, entirely free from the imperfections peculiar to the 'machines we now know, and are perfectly clear and distinct. Mr. Williams claims that his instruments can be used for the transmission of news from a central collecting bureau, so that, anyone who had the instrument installed could, by pressing a button or turning a switch, heal1 the news spoken to him without having to hold a receiver' 1o his ears. A subscriber could, according to Mr. Williams, switch on the news service whilst lying in bed or eating his breakfast. Speeches, debates in Parliament, lectures, or 'sermons, can be similarly sent, taken on photographic films that could be reproduced indefinitely, and heard at any time, the subscriber desired.