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• 1his fingers, right and left, and presently found slimy
• 2speed of telegraphic signals is thirty-five to forty words
• 3are dead, and the literary form is their embalmment. We
• 4so as to permit the needle to indent the foil readily as
• 5and phlox that drew him to the perfumed air of the garden,
• 6The modern megaphone, now used universally in making announcements
• 7stylus always with the desired pressure on the record when
• 8any other vocal sound. We have some idea how the ancients
• 9indigo came next in value; then capsicum, old clothes,
• 10be very closely traced. The phonograph of to-day, except
• 11example of this method of treatment is to be found in the
• 12etc., by members of a family in their own voices, and of
• 13than the manners of these people. They generally began
• 14any other vocal sound. We have some idea how the ancients
• 15prick the finger. The story, though interesting, is not
• 16looked and felt and wrote; the abundant evidence takes
• 17said that his boys were resting and gaining strength after
• 18of the celebrated Redpath Lyceum Bureau in Boston, divided
• 19be used for receiving a large number of records, since
• 20is intensely interesting. I was experimenting, he says,
• 21gate, but the apparatus was out of his reach, and he had
• 22record with a homogeneous film of gold so thin that three
• 23The phonograph was now fairly launched as a world sensation,
• 24for some time, even when the Bell Telephone offices were
• 25up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
• 26on which these novices were graduated in the use and care
• 27Yet after all we are just as far away as ever from enabling
• 28be made by dexterous manipulation to jabber a little, like
• 29end of the apartment. A steady stream of dirty water was
• 30the machine and recited, 'Mary had a little lamb,' etc.
• 31of sound-waves, they might be caused to actuate a diaphragm
• 32on the strip, and it was then reasoned that original sounds
• 33their terrible ordeals in the untracked jungle to the south;
• 34in tongues of fire; but the record can only be photographic.
• 35utility will be widely enlarged. Both dolls and clocks
• 36a 20 per cent. royalty. This curious partnership was maintained
• 37At certain seasons they catch also, in “corrales,”
• 38playing with sound vibrations, as if they were lacrosse
• 39which field has been taken up actively only within the
• 40a phonograph. The diaphragm of the phonograph mouthpiece
• 41the ray of light from Max's lamp impinged upon the opening
• 42on a tripod, and the megaphone is complete. Conversation
• 43repository can certainly have no greater treasure of its
• 44a spiral path whose pitch depended upon that of the feed
• 45he often spent much time with the white foreman of the
• 46do not even know definitely how Shakespeare's and Goldsmith's
• 47prior to the phonograph, were all ingenious. One can watch
• 48be imprinted with elevations and depressions representative
• 49In the afternoon we paid our respects to the governor —
• 50Contrary to the general notion, very few of the great modern