THE PHONOGRAPH WONDER.
Thomas A . Edison, in a recent talk about Ills phonograph, said : ‘For seven months I worked from eighteen to twenty hours a day upon the single sound ‘specia.’ I would say to the instrument ‘specia,’ and it would always say ‘pecia,’ and I couldn’t make it say anything else.’’ ;.It was enough to make me crazy. But I stuck to it until I succeeded, and now you can read a thousand words of a newspaper at the rate of 150 words a minute, and the instrument will repeat them to you without an omission. You can imagine the difficulty of the task that I accorn- } lished when I tell you that the impressions made upon the cylinder are not more than one-millionth part of an inch in depth and are completely invisible even with the aid of a microscope.’
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 451, 5 March 1890, Page 8
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142THE PHONOGRAPH WONDER. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 451, 5 March 1890, Page 8
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