LATEST WONDERS OF TELEGRAPHY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 187, 27 October 1876, Page 14

LATEST WONDERS OF TELEGRAPHY.

The readers of the ' Tiaveller ' have been made acquainted with the wonderful inventions of Professor Bell by which musical and vocal sounds can be, and have been sent over the electric wires, but few, if any, are aware of the wonderful results which are sure to follow these improvements in telegraphy. A few nights ago Professor Bell was in communication with a telegraph operator in New York, and commenced experiments with one of his inventions pertaining to the transmission of musical sounds. He made use of his phonetic organ and played the tune of " America," and asked the operator in New York what he heard. " I hear the tune of ' America/ " replied New Nork. " Give us another." Professor Bell then played " Auld Lang Syne." " What do your hear now ?" " I hear the tune of ' Auld Lan^ Syne/ with full chords distinctly/ replied New York. Thus the astounding discovery has i>een made that a man can play upon musical instruments in New York, New Orleans, or London, or Paris, and be heard distinctly in Boston ! If this can be done, why cannot distinguished performers excute the most artistic and beautiful music in Paris, and an audience assemble in Music Hall, Boston, to listen. Professor Bell's other improvenient^naniely the transmission of the human voice, has become so far perfected that persons have conversed over 1000 miles of wire with perfect ease, although as yet the vocal sounds are not loud enough to be heard by more than one or two persons. But if the human voice can now be sent over the ■wire so distinctly that when two or three known parties are telegraphing 1 the voices of each can be recognised, we may soon have distinguished men delivering speeches in Washington, New York, or London, and audiences assembled in Music Hall, or Faneuil Hall to listen. — • Boston Traveller.'