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Show PHONE HOUND EAET11 v u IOWA BLECTRJCIANS INVENT 'HEW WIKE SYSTEM. Sioux City Xen Claim to Have Or- lsrlnotod Deylco Which V1H Make All the People Each Other's Neighbors. Slpux City, la. Two Sioux City clec-trlclatiB, clec-trlclatiB, M. L. Garrett aud K. W. Proa-ton, Proa-ton, claim to liavo found a way to talk around tho woi Id, Uy tho uso of an Invention Just patented pat-ented by them It will apparently bo aa easy for Americans to converse with their neighbors In Europo ob It has boon to talk, ten blocks ncross tho city. Only glrdlo tho. world with wire, these mon declare, and they will make It possible pos-sible for tho 8wlss maiden In her Alplno home to flirt In tho morning with young men on Florida plantations. Only blecct tho two American continents with topper top-per wire, thoy declare, aud It will bo mero child's play for tho Iownn to order ' cattle from Patagonia over tho tclo-pnone. tclo-pnone. And It la truo that tho instrument la quite simple. Loosely speaking. It might bo said that It consists or n telephone tele-phone receiver put to tho mouth of n telophono transmitter. In other words, that It brings tho ear-pleco of the ordinary or-dinary telephone up to a mouthpiece that tho carpleco may talk Into tho mouthpleco and sent on tho sound. Garrett aud Preston solved the prob-lom prob-lom by putting together what are really two separate telephones. Tho central piece Is a Eureka transmitter, such as is used by many telephoues to-day. Thii Is Blmply tho diaphragm, or disk, tseen In'-nuy mouthpiece, tho vibrations of which nro sent ocr tho wlro. Dack of this dlk nro placed two electro-magnets':- These 'Clcctro-magnels nre similar to those used In telophono receivers, so, roughly speaking. It might bo said that two receivers are put agalnBt thla disk. The sound from one direction comes over ono of these ekc-tro-magncts, or receivers, Is communicated communi-cated directly to tho disk, which vl. bratea Just aa tho dlBk In tho original Instrument, atjd tho sound la sent on Just as It camo from tho original Instrument, Instru-ment, 200 miles nway Stund from the other direction passes over the other sledro-maciiot and to tho disk, aud goes on Its way In the opposite direction, direc-tion, and thus people at opposlteends or tho wire can converso with ono another. Heretoforo only one receiver magnet has been used In dovlces or this kind and this Is why It has never boforo been possible pos-sible to talk but ono way. Tho manner In which tho two currents aro kept sep-arnto sep-arnto Is not explained by tho Inventors, who aro not making public some of tho details or their Instrument. |