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Show WONDERFUL EDISON, What his ;Next Invention will be. LOOKING AT I PEKSOK BT TELEPHONE. Improvements in the Phonograph. Flying' Machines. j The reporter asked Mr. Edison if it I was true lint he had invented a machine by the aid of which a man in New York I would be able to see everything that his wife was doing in raris. "1 don't know," said Mr. Edison, laugh-I laugh-I Ing, "that that would be a real benefit to humanity. The women certainly would protest. But, speaking seriously, 1 am ' at work on an invention which will al-! al-! low a man in Wall street not only to j telephone to a friend in the Central park. but to see that friend while he is chat-, chat-, ting telephonicaily with him. This invention in-vention would be useful and practical, and 1 see no reason why tt should not soon become a reality, and one of the ; tirst things that 1 shall do when 1 gel back to America will be to set up this J contrivance letveeu my laboratory aud my telephone workshops. Moreover, 1 i have already obtained satisfactory re- I suits in reproducing images at that dis- j tatice, which is only about 1,000 feet. It t would be ridiculous to dream of Beeuig ' any one Ijetweeu New York and Paria j The round form of the earth, if there J were no other dilliculty in the way, would j make the thing impossible." i Speaking of the phonograph, the re- porter asked if it had reached its highest degree of perfection. ! "Almost, 1 think," said Mr. Edison, 'in the last Instruments turned out of j my workshops. You must know that ; the ordinary phonograph employed in ! commerce does jt begin to compare with the latest machines that I use in my private experiments. With the latter 1 i can obtain a sound powerful enough to i reproduce phrases of a speech that con be heard perfectly by a large audience. My last ameliorations were with the aspirate as-pirate sounds, which are the weak point of the graphophone. For Beven mooths 1 worked from eighteen to twenty hours I a day tion the single sound 'specia.' 1 1 would say to the instrument 'specia,' j and it would always say 'pecia,' and 1 couldn't make It say anything else. It i was enough to make me crazy. But 1 j stuck to it until 1 Bucceeded, and now ' you can read a thousand words of a I newspaper at the rate of 150 words a ; minute, and the instrument will repeat : them to you without an omission. You 1 can imagine tho dilliculty of the task that 1 accomplished when I tell you that the impressions made ypon the cylinder ' are not more than one millionth part of ; an inch iu depth, and are completely in-! in-! visible even with the aid of a micro-; micro-; scope." Reporter And what new discoveries j will he made in electricity? i Mr. Edison Ah. that would bo difH-1 difH-1 cult to say. We may some day come j upon one of the great secrets of nature. I am always on the look out for some- thing 'hich will help me to solve the i problem of navigating the air. 1 have ; worked hard upon this subject, but 1 am very much discouraged. We may find something new before that comes, but that will come. Mr. Edison further said that the great development of electricity will come when we tind a more economical method of producing it. During his trip across the ocean lie remained for hours on deck 1, utUirxrr .I,a u. .aja that it uiade him wild when he saw so much force going to waste. "But one of these days," hu continued, "wo will chain all that tho fulls of Niagara as well as the winds and that will be the millennium of electricity." Courrierdes Etats-Unis. j |