Show preserve voice for or future generations youthful inventor C laimi claims remarkable discovery new york A small spool ot of steel wire will preserve for future generations the epochal events of history this Is tile the way harold westman twenty three year old student and in of T mamaroneck Mam aroneck N Y views a device lie lins has perfected to reproduce voice and other sounds by means mean of a vibrating wire if this idea had been worked out bomier gomier lie said we could now hear the sermon on the mount patrick henrys speech for liberty or death Lincol ns address nt gettysburg every ballot in the 11 democratic national convention with those opportunities gone however every important event of cf U M r ture can bi lq preserved westin dares clares better than phonograph the steel wire method reproduces sound more clearly than the phonograph ho he claims and can bo be preserved indefinitely whereas phonograph records are comparatively short lived I 1 if a great speech Is made it can be recorded oy or a spool of this wire and be reproduced perfectly a thousand years from now the young inventor said westman was shown the chalm of dr curt stille german inventor that hint lie he had perfected a similar device the stille announcement was carri carried d in an exclusive international ne news w service dispatch of august 3 1 I perfected my invention several months ego ago and gave it a final trial july 0 9 11 westman West nian said idelle patterson well known new york singer elfige will verify this in the final test I 1 asked her to sing n number of arias that are hobt difficult to reproduce clearly by tiny any method she sang for forty minutes and then listened to the results the reproduction of her own voice she paid me and my invention tho the compliment of bf saying the reproduction was waa perfect 11 1 I made no public announcement of the test because I 1 dont claim much credit for IV it the inventor continued doctor still was apparently behind me by three or four weeks but both of us were ere 23 25 years behind 11 Io uleen the swedish inventor poulsen Pouts cn according to westman n perfected tho the electro magnetic method of voice reproduction a quarter of it i it a century ago and a n d deuces using his princ principle irAe were used in dictaphone work in europe europa the sounds were clear out faint aided by radio the trouble was lie said that the amplifier or 1 oud loud speaker had not been developed then as aa it has since radio tile the loud speaker Is the one thing doctor stille and I 1 have that poulsen westman said he wanted to give full credit to poulsen randsome and some credit to himself for being ahead of doctor stille with the application of the amplifier to tile the old process to substantiate the claim he exhibited a rumber number of photographs made ande by th the e Intern international ailo nal newsreel company of 0 f new york during the test with sime alme patterson these theae photographs taken july 0 allow the device in operation er era tion atlon the principle og of the wire method of sound regulation as aa explained by all alip young inventor la Is this the wire Is unreeled from the spool na its the sound enters the microphone tile the sound waves magnified by tile the microphone cause the wire alro to vibrate while vibrating the wire Is magnetized the degro degree of magnetization depending bending upon the length of vibration when the magnetized wire runs through the reproducing end and of the apparatus bits of steel attract the magnetized wide wire causing it to vibrate exactly as in the first process this vibration n reproduces the sound waves that first entered the microphone ana and they are increased to audibility in the loud speaker the advantages of tills this proc process esi fire are several according to West cian |