MR EDISON’S WONDERS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 440, 12 April 1890, Page 2

MR EDISON’S WONDERS.

IT appears we are never going to hear the end of Mr Edison’s wonderful inventions. By Home papers we notice that he has been developing his great idea of making use of photography as an adjunct to the phonograph, in order to bring a speaker’s personality before the eye. The outcome of the experiments is a machine which is credited with marvellous power. In the front of the speaker are placed two small machines, one a phonograph and the other an ingenious piece of mechanism by which photographs of the speaker are taken in succession with enormous rapidity at intervals of from one-eighth to onetwentieth of a second. The results thus obtained may be sent to any desired point, and the photographs thrown on a screen in such quick succession that the screen picture is apparently a living one, moving, gesticulating, and apparently uttering the words which in fact are spoken by the phonograph. If the new invention works as well in practice as Mr Edison believes it will, there will be a great revolution in our present way of doing things. The man of means will be able to enjoy the theatre without going near it, and instead of reading through long reports of political and other speeches, he can have them faithfully repeated, set off with the dramatic effect which the speaker may employ to impress his meaning. It is almost impossible to imagine the great changes which may result from the wonderful ingenuity of Mr Edison.