. Collection of United States patents granted to Thomas A. Edison, 1869-1884 . N. PETERS, Pholo-Uthogr^her. Washington. 0. C United States Patent Office, THOMAS A. EDISON, OF MENLO PARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WEST-ERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. f. IMPROVEMENT IN TELEPHONES OR SPEAKING-TELEGRAPHS. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,018, dated April 30, 187ft; application tiled December 13, 1877. To all whom U may concern; Be it known that I, Thomas A. Edison, ofMenlo Park, in the State of New Jersey, haveinvented an Improvement in Speaking-Tele-graphs, of which


. Collection of United States patents granted to Thomas A. Edison, 1869-1884 . N. PETERS, Pholo-Uthogr^her. Washington. 0. C United States Patent Office, THOMAS A. EDISON, OF MENLO PARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WEST-ERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. f. IMPROVEMENT IN TELEPHONES OR SPEAKING-TELEGRAPHS. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,018, dated April 30, 187ft; application tiled December 13, 1877. To all whom U may concern; Be it known that I, Thomas A. Edison, ofMenlo Park, in the State of New Jersey, haveinvented an Improvement in Speaking-Tele-graphs, of which the following is a specifica-tion : I make use of two or more cells containinga mobile fluid,, and these fluids are insulatedfrom each other except when they come to-gether at a narrow opening or space, and thereis an electrode in each cell, and the diaphragmor other body vibrated by the atmosphericsound - waves regulates the opening or thepressure at this poiut, so as to vary the elec-tric tension on the line to correspond with thesound vibrations. In the drawing, Figure


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