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Show PRESERVE VOJCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS Youthful Inventor Claims Remarkable Discovery. New York. A small spool of steel wire will preserve for future generations genera-tions the epochal events of history. This Is the way Harold Westnian, twenty-three-year-old student and Inventor In-ventor of Mamaroneck, N. Y., views a device he has perfected to reproduce voice and other, sounds by means of a vibrating wire. "If this Idea had been worked out sooner," he said, "we could now hear the Sermon on the Mount, Patrick Henry's speech for liberty or death, Lincoln's address at Gettysburg every ballot In the 1924 Democratic national convention. With those opportunities gone, however, how-ever, every Important event of the future fu-ture can be preserved, Westnian de- Clares. ! Bettor Than Phonograph. The steel wire method reproduces sound more clearly than the phonograph, phono-graph, he claims, and can be preserved pre-served indefinitely, whereas phonograph phono-graph records are comparatively short lived. "If a great speech is made It can be recorded on a spool of this wire and be reproduced perfectly a thousand thou-sand years from now," the young Inventor In-ventor said. Westman was shown the claim of Dr. Curt Stllle, German inventor, thnt he had perfected a similar device. The Stllle announcement was carried In an exclusive International News Service dispatch of August 3. "I perfected my invention several months ago, and gave It a final trial July 9," Westman said. "Idelle Patterson, Pat-terson, well known New York singer, will verify this. "In the final test I asked her to sing a number of arias that are most difficult to reproduce clearly by 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 the compliment of saying "the reproduction re-production was perfect.' "I made no public announcement of the test, because I don't claim much credit for it." the inventor continued. con-tinued. ''.Doctor Stillewas apparently behind me by three or four weeks, but both of us were 25 years behind Puulsen, the Swedish inventor." Poulsen, according to Westman, perfected the electro-magnetic method meth-od of voice reproduction a quarter of a century ago, and devices using his principle were used in dictaphone work in Europe. The sounds were clear but faint. Aided by Radio. "The crouble was." he said, "that the amplifier or 'loud speaker,' had ' not been developed then as it has since radio. The loud speaker is the one thing Doctor Stllle and I have that Poulsen didn't." Westman said he wanted to give i full credit to Poulsen and some credit to himself for being ahead of Doctor Stille with the application of the amplifier am-plifier to the old process. To substantiate the claim he ex-! ex-! hlbited a number of photographs made by the International Newsreel com-pany com-pany of New York during the test with Mine. Patterson. These photographs, j taken July 9, show the device in operation. op-eration. The principle of the "wire method" of sound regulation as explained by the young inventor is this: The wire is unreeled from the spool as the sound enters the microphone. The sound waves, magnified by the microphone, cause the wire to vibrate. While vibrating the wire is magnetized, magnet-ized, the degree of magnetization depending de-pending upon the length of vibration. When the magnetized wire runs through the reproducing end of the apparatus, bits of steel attract the magnetized wire, causing it to vibrate vi-brate exactly as in the first process. This vibration reproduces the sound waves that first entered the microphone, micro-phone, and they are Increased to audibility in the loud speaker. The advantages of this process are several, ncenrrlir" to West'' -"v |