Show HIS LATEST INVENTION records and transmits thought A CLIMAX OF INGENUITY idea almost beyond our comprehension THE WORLD how the machine operates first announcement of the success of this creation of eram ner inventor fourth street K E washington DO january the national press association wash in D CI indorse the interview held with me by yur correspondents as the first official announcement of my thought machine and authorize its exclusive du patch through you association yours truly JB by the national arm association washington D C jan 8 man bax think directly into a machine and produce an accurate record of his thought at any time this is the idlest gift to mankind from julias emmner jr the world renowned inventor of the long distance lione who now resides in this city at fourth street N E chii announcement ia substantiated by the wonderful thought machne belt whose operation lias been investigated ariy riy oar representatives developing a practical worthy of its author v ho has patented BO largo a number of successful inventions in and europe including besides am famous lung distance telephone many of dynamos dy namoa motors etc sir emmner is a plan spoken scientist whose creations deal with facts direct from natures hadd such is his newest marvel the thought machine before which he was seated as the correspondents entered hie laboratory 1 I have been working upon the thought giachine nia chine eaid the celebrated elett ician bior about three ear against ten beirs devoted to developing the lone distance girat patents were granted me in 85 As to OF OPERATION the thought machine ia aa much superior to the telephone as the telephone 19 to the crudest steam eueine its daily performance here in my laboratory has already demonstrated that it accomplishes more than I 1 had looked for and must prove one of the moat useful in Bt has contributed to civilization with the perfected machine we instantly obtain a permanent record of thought cascen at any speed which can be transcribed at will by any operator how did I 1 invent it well the need of such a machine to complete our intellectual facilities hag long been evident to ke believing alt things i I 1 looked for the materials to it and found tham that is all the machine continued the inventor the co of material and immaterial forces with electricity as my motive power and chemistry as my recorder ane chemically senei surface of a cylinder while undergoing tion by the electric current curr ont receives the thought wave which stream from the physical brain ot the operator and portrays them vibration upon vibration form upon form with microscopic fidelity in an imperishable message kov alie separate actions of all forces electricity the chemical and the magnetic currents of the human brain have long been thoroughly understood but the thought machine combines the actions of these three distinct forces in an apparatus where such faultless electrical chemical and mechanical conditions anre subject to the operators will that taco delicate mind conveying his thoughts are engraved upon the benei aa u continuous unerring un eiring tiie vibrations of the el current alone hue subtlety to produce the delicate decomposition required to register th aught perhaps the closest analogy to the thought machines operations aa found in photography which hower is coarse compared with thin thought registration electricity instead of light as in the camera de composes the sensitive film and engraves tho VIBRATORY in photography alio decomposition is caused by incidence or tho striking 0 alie light rays tho surface from without tho thought machine ia entirely insensitive to light and decomposition la by of the electric current through tho surface layer of its film there ia also a rough likeness to alie picturing pic turine of the boico on abo and in all three mants the phonograph and thought machine thoro is the remarkable analogy that performance is solely adne to recording vibrations 0 differing respectively light sound and the adent view leea wawa oi thought the graat inventor who cabie forward to greet his visitors now directed tacia to the bablo ahro he had been sitting upon which rested a apparatus en caned in oak not unlike a diminutive about ns inches wide echt inches km and three ami a halt ache bili aliis the thought machine said mr alie case its interior contains the delicate vibratory mechanism finished you eee with tho precision of a mathematical instrument furnie hine proper vibration during alio operation 01 tho machine you will alao notice at the left a small dry dat tery which is the roost perfect of its kind science lias yet devised and att made especially for this machine OH too of the roso you see the registration cylinder six inches long by ono and bocc half inches in diameter mado of vulcanized rubber for and rotated by the vibratory 0 PAGE TWO THE MR EMMNER mechanism beneath the thin hard tabular envelope is the film which fits accurately over the cylinder and bears a outer coating for receiving ce iving the thought record during the cylinders rotation the electricity decomposing the surface of the film is supplied through this electric pencil propelled in its traveler alone this fine screw parallel with the cylinder which it gently touch esthus directing a spiral threadlike thread like course of the current around its face the electric pencil being removed after completing a record on the film tho same traveler now attaches to and carries the reproducer along its face to read hie record the reproducer consists of a large electric tympanum at the machine connecting by flexible tubes bearing conductors to two smaller tympanums or receivers fitting upon the temples through which the reproduced thought is conducted to the brain A practically indefinite repetition of the readings can thus bo made without diminishing the clearness of the record As the conditions of the machine offer no limit either to the number of persona who can simultaneously receive its reproduced thought or to the distance at which its messages can be read one of its earliest uses must evidently be in the quickening and bettering of consolidated enss dispatches the films are exceedingly cheap and practically imperishable the coating is lie result of hundreds of experiments embodying elements never bc foreso employed and is undoubtedly the most sensitive composition ever produced mr emmner alien requested silence for a moment seated himself before the thought machine adjusted it lor le cording and opened the electric circuit TUB BEG IN its smooth noiseless motion the cylinder revolving on its axis pressed softly by alie electric pencil pas ing along its face then as the inventor brought his head within a fool of the recorder directing his mind upon the machine a thin cloudlike cloud like thread wound spirally about the glistening film from arft to right this was the kc ord which after several m of balent work had overspread ilie enair film with its smoky tinted coils stiv ifford finished emmner a circuit button the mechanism sloping ah noiselessly as it begin beg in and invited a test of th B record no better i lea oi chosa accuracy can be given than to elate that by with ahe in a number of thoughts forming the description of this article have bean thought into and into thi thought machine in perfectly logical sequence the of thought then continued to pleasantly to tho correspondents some notable developments from with thought records aid lie are that languages as well as words have each their d stindt intelligible records that cm eions of like kind have like vibratory records while aloer imposed records of violently dif ferine emotions emo tiong tend to produce temporary insanity in the re thinker that animal sagacity eo called has likewise a characteristic vibratory record well nigh amounting to a language t ut also deleterious to the human that thought is the explosion of the mind as vocally is the explosion of the mouth thai a captive human being held forcibly against his will within recording distance of the machine involuntarily unta rily register his thoughts that thought has color as well as vibration and that it if convened con vered with varying distinctness to all the and nervous vital centers of the body the uses oi the thought machine will bo more extensive than can po bibly be predicted concluded mr Em niner to the uw it will be invaluable for the involuntary conviction of criminals crim inala by the automatic registration of the thoughts of crimes alie last wishes os the ayin man can also be given an irrefutable record of vital importance in the settlement of estates in medicine it must prove equally lor tr iMling the in conditi in can be unerringly found by cate but unsympathetic examiner while in connection the electroscope it will prove aninett mablo help for diagnosing nervous s mental di in fact a broad area for beut in chemical electricity and psychophysiology is opened by tho new ma ahme to the business man in tho chea of commerce and to the author in tho ni cetia of higher composition it will prove alike a toon and to inquirers in every field of cimie it will furnish a new and mcana of verification fio that the practical effect of the thought maclaine macl tine in our daily lite will le to save much of the most valuable thought of the world which now goes to diate Wi ate and to lighten labor by facilitating its transmission to mankind |