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Show Ii Inventions of Irad Biglow I irad biglgws phonographic type By HUGH PENDEXTER Copyright. 1010. by W. G. Chapman. T . I. haCSS UP,,i inf0mC(l Mnsman, now determined Kfljjar," incekh' replied gjtelv fumbling with bis jfo Freeman will bo cx-ivliilo cx-ivliilo this was theoretic theoret-ic could hnve added that Staid delcctato Freeman r it was becoming n sharp Flrad as to where he re than a transient wel-I, wel-I, many, a long evening it with him." maliciously rir, who had crown pecv-ilativc'a pecv-ilativc'a repeatedly poster post-er "I can see you two LVv the kitchen stovo like k'Mcbbc, he'll read to rjcyes sparkled suddenly, wine lone enough to con-E con-E he gently corrected: from the same book, you ughty keen over the proposition prop-osition bo you talking ?Jade.iVatCh- 1?rcom,ln ain't no m"l7I.lind reference to my ahem! nlnS ?Jlneraple typo books.'' explained ex-plained Irad, lootang from the window a. the tops of the distant hills. "It will revolutionize book making and " tntini, as v? well know. Man or ,. S2li ?c,-?r'l,bc ? 1)CIllltiful sunset n lf. yk.e oflke y steers and you can only say: 'Handsome us a meter ' meaning the scenery; 0r. "Beslr ever seen.' meaning the steers. It's so about anything you try to describe: YorL ,,C: onQthqnKhtS and short on descriptions. So is ovcry one. But when you open a book printed in my phonographic type it's all chained. Ihc second the mental current from the cyc.stnkos tho printed pages the words bogin to make harmonic sounds and and01" " you're reading about "Of all the.simou pure bosh " began Edgar, his eyes bulging. t ,2sor;.,bosh' .b.t science." insisted Irnd. "I sensitize the type, or, as J-iceman says, mesmerize it so if you're reading about a battle you instnntly liear the popping of guns and tho boom pt the cannon nnd tho patter of retreating re-treating feet. It's a cross between. p8yfi1i?,l0?,?al and .Phono type. I guess." , i'v1,1 m a11 lt do you mean?" cried Edgar. "Say it's a April shower. The scc-( scc-( y"u r,oa(l tlio words you hear tho soft drop-drop of the rain and the sweet swish of tho spring wind and tho cooing of birds. If tho heroino is a sweet girl graduate you'd hear them torcci'ul words: 'Beyond tho Alps lies Italy.' We'd git ten dollars per tor school books now selling for Ba cents. After a magazine editor pays for a word for a story he'd gay $7 a word to sensitize the tvpe. bay it was a story about a feller singing sing-ing a morry song; besides reading tho song you'd hear it suug in a deep, rollicking voice. As to newspapers r.o. we'll let that go till .you drop over to Irceman's for a evening. Want me to help harness?" "Wait a minuto," mumbled Edgar, nibbing his right ear. "There's lota of money in it." "Lots of money? Ho! ho!" cried Irad, hunting for a pencil. "Take 10 cents a line, flat rate, for mesmerizing the tvpe in newspapers. We'd put it on with a brush so thin it wouldn't last moro'n one rading. The royalties royal-ties from newspapers alone would bo $11,000,000 for the first year. Just think of it! 'Buy Ding's Baked Beans,' reads p. ad. And it speaks, loud and clear-like at the same second. The minute 3-011 stop reading tho.tvpo stops talking. Now if you're rcad5' " "What's your rush?" demanded Edgar. Ed-gar. "Ain't our food wholesome! The boss is lame and I'm glad of it, if it keops you here till tomorrcr. Now you can't budge today, and that's settled. How do you make this typo act so?" "All' 3'ou do is to scratch a crease on each letfor, using a diamond cutter cut-ter and making a- crease vou can't see with the naked eye. Then you fill in the creases with my psycho-magnetic fluid, and when tho type strikes paper it leaves a trace of. the phonic fluid, which ono glance of tho human cyo will cause to evaporate into spoken words, strains of music, and so forth. And thcrp you be." And Irad smiled triumphantly. tri-umphantly. . "But Great Scott! How long does it- taJco to scratch all them .dinged type?" gasped Edgar. "If a man's provided with a high grado diamond cutter, made to order, guaranteed a hundred proof, and providing pro-viding tho type is plastic by being treated 111 our specially constructed carbo-fumacc, carrying a relay of three different kinds of gases, I figure a man ought to do one typo a day clso he's a skunk and loafing on his . I job," said Trad. "Is that all?-" whispered Edgar, his face purple with suppressed emotion. "Sure there ain't some billion-dollar, cxtry super-microscopic self-adjusting, diamond hiltod pin wheel to be fotchei in?" "I swan! T did forgit the diamond dust, to bo used in filing the diamond cutter after each typo is scratched,' ' cried Irad. "Good joke on me, eh? We'd slap it on with a low geared emery wheel " "1'U come oyer the first evening you an' Edgar have a reading bee," grim-b' grim-b' promised Edgar. |