ACCOMODATION HOUSE on MOUNT EGMONT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2432, 22 October 1886, Page 2

ACCOMODATION HOUSE on MOUNT EGMONT.

Mossrs Skiuner and Side, the local torn of civil engineers and surveyors, Ave recoived instructions from three Beefs' in the neighborhood of Mount Egmont to lay off a sito for an accommodation house about 4000 feet up tho sido. Messrs Skinner and Solo are now in communication with the Government for the purpose »f obtaining the necessary authority for tho occupation of the land, and it is confidently expected that tho Government will assout. It is proposed to erect a tempi*) vary shed and canvas house for 'this Bummer, tho state of the new track, on which this convenience is tube situated, precluding the possibility of conveying timber to the site at present. It is also proposed to erect stables, and make a small clearing for grazing purposes. Some difficulty is expected in reference to obtaining sanction for tho clearing, the place being within the forest reserve, but the Chief Surveyor and Crown Lands Ranger are understood to Jiave recommended that 'this authority aki be granted. 'l'lio site of the house and gi'uiinds will be in the scrub line, and the ' scrub at the spot it about five feet high. Taranaki Herald. 'JK'

BELL'S PATENT INVENTION.

Professor Alexander Graham 801 l and Mb cousin, Dr Chichester Bell, have latently made a vory remarkable discovery, which they think is quite as important as the transmission of the tone of the voice through the telephone. They lnwr discovered that a falling jet of water or a flamo of gas burned in a room reproduces every word spoken and every sound uttered within a given distance. When two poople join in conversation m a room in the evening, the gas which burns above their heads repeats every word they say, and sounds uttered in the vicinity of flowing water produces vibrations. It is well understood that whatever can repeat the waves of air produced by any loud sound will repeat tho sound itself. It is the principle of the telephone, But in the telephone tho original impulses are repeated instantly, and dio away forever, it really does all that is described, tk waves are not reproduced in this forJf but their effect on n jet of water, loin? known to be sensitive to such impulses, is caught by instantanoous photography, and permanently recorded on a glass plate in the form of minute irregularities of surface By suitable apparatus these elevations and diprossions which correspond to pulsations of air, aro translated into air waves, and the voice is hoard M-'-: again. Tho water or liquid of whatovor«k '" kind it may bo, is coloured with mate of potash. If it wore perfectly clear it would not imswor, bocauso tho light used in photographing would pass through without resistance, and no record would be made on the tablet. The water is coloured for photographing, aud tho jut' is made to fall obliquofy on a glass plate. Tho water apreadß itself out on the glass plate aud runs oil. It is tho water so spread out that is to be photographed as it passes. Words spoken causes the jet of water to vibrate; the vibrations in tho jet caußoa corresponding vibrations in the film of water as it breaks and spreads on the glass plate and runs oil'. A ray of light is passed through that film, and through the class plate to a Rousitivo tabkjk bohind. Tho vibrations in the liquid filllf aro reflected in the variations of intensity' of the impression made on tho photographic tablet. Speakin;,continues, tho jet keeps running, the him keeps passing over tho plate, tho recording tablet keops. moving as the film keeps moving, and, A the light, passing through this film to the • ™ tablet, makes a record of the speech farmore accurate than any verbatim report, 4fc