MISCELLANEOUS.
Another addition has been made to the many scientific wonders of recent years. Herr. A Gentilli, of Vienna, has invented an instrument —called by him the glossograph — consisting of an ingenious combination of delicate levers and blades, which, placed upon the tongue and lips and tinder the nostrils of the speaker, are vibrated by the movements of the former and the breath of the latter. The vibrated word is transmitted to pencils which transcribe the several signs preducted by the action of tongue, and lips, and breath from the nostrils, upon a strip of paper moved by a mechanical arrangementSimilar to shorthand, a special system of writing, which may fitly be termed glossography, is produced, based upon the principle of syllabic construction and combination of consonants. It is especially suitable for those languages, the orthography of which differs least from the phonetic record of the apparatus. A wide vista is opened to the instrument for its practical application in recording speech, Independently of the fact that by its means we shall be enabled to write four or five times as quickly as hitherto by shorthand, the new apparatus requires ho preliminary study and no special practice,
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1095, 2 June 1882, Page 2
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197MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1095, 2 June 1882, Page 2
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