A Wonderful Invention.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3242, 28 June 1889, Page 2

A Wonderful Invention.

Piior to the opening of the Phonograph exhibition 1 at the Gains-;* borough gallery,. Oldi Bond-streetj-'iv: which taken:: place >; immediately;ok Golonel Gouraud yesterday described some of the latest improve-.p ments that, have beea effeoted-in .- this wonder-working its inventor, Mr Edison, - Everybody - , has lieaid something about, and what it can do;; and certain-' oLw; • experiments gone' through byColonS.--Gouraud clearly demonstrated that / the phonograph is no mere aoientifio. toy, but an instrument that can be . applied to yory useful and practical : purposes. Waves of aound'paßsing through its, funnel" are not only caught up, but fixed on a revolving band of wax, and'at, any interval of time can be drawn forth again in a perfectly audible manner by working the:: machine,; whose motor is. electricity. The accuracy of the phonograph was tested by .the lecturer, who- .road the following words into -. the : funnel.: " I phonograph the first,; by the graoe of God, through the ' brain and hand of Edison, sovereign ofsoience, master of all .languages, : servant- of nations, tireless toiler in the cause iff civilisation,, believer in the faith oK the ; ultiinate.;|tnuniphant destiny off the Anglo-Saxon .race, I, the aforesaid, acknowledged king of all - inanimate things,': from this, -m.: throno, do hereby declare ® exhibition open- to the- inliabitants'of these i migiity J Britisli Ialos; - and to those strangers, wlio are privileged to enjoy their traditional, hospitality." God save the Queen. God bleBS the President, Amen. In witness of the,, same, oheers and applause by. the ■ phonograph's only pfierV.: the Press." . These words and: the; huzzas and hand clappings which were given at the end of the reading were shortly afterwards discharged from tho machine, and in a style that-.was clearly heard over the large' room. ■ In addition, Mr Cha's Coborn sang the, chorus af" Two lovely black eyes" it six languages, • during;.whioh an interesting' mishap occurred. Tho singer slipped in his Greek version, but Colonel Gouraud having a record of it when the vocalist gave -it ; bis months ago at Norwood, it was produced, pieced in a phonograph, and upon being heard, Mr Coborn instantly caught up the remainder. and trolled it into the maohine, which a little later on emitted the Bounds, which'very fairly corresponded to x thiL ; original tones. The uses of J* phonograph fot correspondence®!' for journalists, who may talk jnßtead )f using the.pen, having their matter ! iixt into type direct from the voice, tnd other practical matters," - were referred to by the : lecturer., Colonel Jouroud, by express invitation, will sxpldin the nature of the instrument jefore tho French Aoademy on the :sth. .