EDISON'S NEXT.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3030, 31 October 1878, Page 1

EDISON'S NEXT.

The in'-WBtiye faculty of the man it strikingly manifested by a little conversation that Mr Puhifer had with him on Friday lattf. It seemed that Mr Tom Kicheson of school board presidency and the Collier lead and oil works, and Mr Pulsifer of the St. Louis lead and oil works, are both members of that notable institution, the, Sf. Louis Telephonic Exchange. Mr Hicheson b telephone is located in a closet, and a few days ago he was telling Mr Pulsifer abput a very curious telephonic dream that he had. He dreamt that Mr Pulsifer had " called ■

him on the.circuit, and that he got up and answered the call—a very proper thing for him to do. Eight by the side of the closet, however, was a mirror, which Mr Eicheson faced as he put his ear to the telephone,, and, said Mr Eicheson, " As I listened to the voice I saw Mr Pulsifer'a lineaments reflected in the mirror as plainly as if he had been actually present in the room." So when Edison was here Mr Pulsifer told him the story of Eieheaon's dream, which, by the way, may become equally famous with Eichter's. Edison listened, and said that he had been working on that very thing. He had been able to send waves of sound and heat through the telephone, and was now experimenting^ on the wa?es of light, and, laid he, "Before a year I expect to be able to make you see a man a hundred miles away."—St. Louis Globe Democrat. ' '■ ■■' • .■■ ■, ■'■ >■