Show Edi sons bew invention during the hours talk that I 1 had with edison he told me of the kinto graph bia new apparatus app eratus for reproducing the scene upon the stage of a theatre or any other moving picture also of the new improvements upon the phonograph and his process of getting iron from ores heretofore considered worthless the kinto graph is a most astonishing affair which while extremely simple may possibly become a wonderful adjunct to the phonograph fyhen it is completed and edison is thoroughly convinced that its perfection is now merely a question of detail and experiment it will be possible not only to I 1 hear the voice of the person coming from the phonograph but to see the persons face just as it was at the time the words were spoken with every change of expression the movement of the lips the eyes etc if it is a reproduction of a scene upon the stage the picture will be seen the act ora moving abort and proper gestures as they speak in the case of the head ot the person talking to you from the phonograph it will be life size if necessary the mechanism by which this is accomplished ia extremely simple and the thine has been made possible by the discovery of instantaneous nh by which animals in motion or a cannon ball flying through the air have been photographed jax |