Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ..etc., etc . transfers tothe wax of another cylinder the tracingson the first. The funnel is replaced bya rubber tube having two, four or sixbranches, according to the number ofthe auditors, and the tubes ^ ^p wish ; by placing them again in a me-chanism as above described, the origi-nal sounds may be reproduced. In this manner are made the pi
Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ..etc., etc . transfers tothe wax of another cylinder the tracingson the first. The funnel is replaced bya rubber tube having two, four or sixbranches, according to the number ofthe auditors, and the tubes ^ ^p wish ; by placing them again in a me-chanism as above described, the origi-nal sounds may be reproduced. In this manner are made the piiono-graphs found in many hotels and pub-lic plaices. The first cylinder is care-fully made as above described, and du*plicated as many times as cylinder is then placed in a case,and the phonograph may be put in usewhen required. The new and perfected Edison plion-ograph has already gone into very gen^ MARVEIyLOUS INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES. 459 eral use, and many thousands are dis-tributed in American business offices,where they facilitate correspondence ina variety of ways. They are employed peated into the machine by the reporteras quickly as they were uttered by thevarious speakers. A large number ofmachines are in use by actors, clergy-. i<iste;ning To sounds from by stenographers as a help in the tran-scription of their shorthand these notes have been slowlydictated to amanuenses, but they arenow frequently read off to a phonographand then written out at leisure. The phonograph is, however, beingused for direct stenographic work, andit reported verbatim forty thousandwords of discussion at one presidentialconvention, the words being quietly re- the; phonograph. men, musicians, reciters and others, toimprove their elocution and is also worthy of note that voicerecords remain of distinguished men,who being dead, yet speak. The phonograph faithfully repro-duces music, whistling, singing, speech,or any sounds, and the phonogramscan
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