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I JIiDDJiX TKKHOII TO EVIL DUJSRS. , London, Juue 0. Mr K. M. Turner, of .New York. gave a private demonstration at the Savoy Hotel yesterday of a remarkable invention which, while assisting the business man to conduct his all'aii's, may add a now terror to the lives of evil-doers. The invention is called a dictorgraph. and by its aid Mr Turner claims that the police will be able to heal* conversation in a distant room, while ail employer of labor can listen to the complimentary or uncomplimentary remarks which may be made in different parts of a building by his clerks of workmen.
The dictograph consists of a small box, or master station, less than a foot long and >ix. inches deep, and any number of small sub-stations. IMiiml on a de>k or table and connected with its j,ub-stations in different parts of the building or in different cities. ihe dictograph places the owner at oiicr in communication with ten or more a^istaiits. The remarkable feature of the instrument U the fact that the master station i* endowed with the power of hearing and repeating every sound, even every whi-per within a radius of fifteen feet. It U the nn»t sensitive receiver nml niu<t out spoken transmitter ever invented. "Kvery one who has seen the dictograph."' <aid the inventor yesterday, has a new use for it. At lYe>ident Roosevelt's suggestion the pi-ivat.- rooms of Senators and Congressmen at Washington will be fitted with it so that they ean bear everything said on the filM floor of the House without being Iheiv. The public printer controls the business of bis great department from on'- room by means of it.
"In Now York the police think that it i- poinw to ho very useful to tliem. Vim tan put it in tin- wall of a room, papor it over. unci it will transmit every Wi.nl to a ilistnnt operator.. Very often U^- L police enu pet a man to talk if he thi'i'e is 110 Hiiril party to hear principle value of the ilieiogrnph use as a time saver in a larpo the ehiof (lops not wish to sendiiiff for typewriters) is rfTeotive over graat j
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 August 1907, Page 3
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369BOX THAT HEARS AND TALKS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 August 1907, Page 3
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