The Phonograph.

Manawatu Herald, 14 July 1892, Page 3

The Phonograph.

"Our readers will have on Saturday an opportunity of witnessing the marvellous instrument invented by Mr Edison, called the phonograph. Everyone should make it their business to be present a3 it is the •xhibition of the wonder of the present age, and must be interesting to one and all.

It was in 1877 that Thomas Elvey Edison, electrician of New Jersey announced a new phonograph to that previously patented by a Mv Fenby in 1868, which was a machine pro posed to be attached to pianofortes and other keyed instruments, by which any music that is played may be written down on blank paper. In 1888 Mi 1 Edison had a greatly im proved instrument adapted for postal communication. "At the exhibitions of it, it wss considered per» fpfjthr the record, reproduction and preservation of sounds of all kinds, the indentations of the air waves being made upon wax.

As far as we understand the working, when an impress of a speech or musio is desired, the speaker or musician faoea a receiver, and the waves of sound affect the wax coat ing of a .cylinder, which is kept •lowly revolving. .: When the dylinaet isfilled itis removed, and when reproduced it is simply re ,vplyed into • a sounding trumpet which increases the tone so that large audiences hear. By means of Jlifi wonderful instrument the voices .pfJjMr Gladstone, Lord Salisbury and other distinguished men, besides those- of operatic stars &c, can bs conveyed : to ' audiences who would have no other way to enjoy such a treat; It is ; predicted that the day is not distant* when everyone will have a phonograph and instead of writing to one another, speak your ppeeoh ;tp; the instrument and post the wax. receiver. The instrument to be. seen on Saturday is said to have: all the latest improvements jujtreoeived from America.