THE GRAPHOPHONE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1808, 27 October 1888, Page 3

THE GRAPHOPHONE.

A riYal to the phonograph has appeared (says an English newspaper of recent date), and is now ia operation at the temporary offices of the Tainter Graphophoße Company, 10 Hatton ; Garden, London. The new instrument is fixed on a stand, and is worked by a treadle in a similar way jio. a sawing Machine. A hollow rotating cylinder •f black wax, varying from Sin to 6in . in length and about lin in diameter, is placed on a simple revolting apparatus. To this is applied the point of an engraving needle or cutting stylus, fixed on a mica disc, which receives ' the voice through a speaking tube and records the pitch and timbre. Beproduction is effected through the medium of a small and sensitive receiver attached to ear tubes. The process of receiving can be checked at will, and words imperfectly caught can be repeated. In tests made recently the reproduction of the voice of speakers was clear and exact, whether given in and out as dictation of business letters, as song, recitation, or imitation .. i of: i birds and animals. The practical use of the invention when brought into commercial operation will be as a ■ubstitute for the services of stenography in point of accuracy and speed. The instrument, it is claimed, will record about a thousand words in Smin on the cylinder, which can be sent in a box by post to any part of the United Kingdom, and which will, .on being applied to the receiving apparatus, evolve the message in the tones of the narrator, Practically, therefore, the machine does the work of Edison's electrical phonograph. Mr Tainter claimß to have succeeded with a preparation of wax before Mr Edison took up that form.