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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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Phonographs
have
arrived
in
London,
and
through
the
kindness
of
Mr.
Edison
and
his
English
representative,
Colonel
G.
E.
Gouraud,
we
have
had
an
opportunity
of
testing
one.
A
number
of
phonograms,
taken
in
Edison's
laboratory,
were
sent
over
with
the
instruments,
and
several
of
them
were
caused
to
deliver
in
our
hearing
the
sounds
which
were
'sealed
in
crystal
silence
there.'
The
first
was
a
piece
which
had
been
played
on
the
piano,
quick
time,
and
the
fidelity
and
loudness
with
which
it
was
delivered
by
the
hearing
tube
was
fairly
astonishing,
especially
when
one
considered
the
frail
and
hair-like
trace
upon
the
wax
which
had
excited
it.
There
seemed
to
be
something
magical
in
the
effect,
which
issued,
as
it
were,
from
the
machine
itself.
Then
followed
a
cornet
solo,
concert
piece
of
cornet,
violin,
and
piano,
and
a
very
beautiful
duet
of
cornet
and
piano.
The
tones
and
cadences
were
admirably
rendered,
and
the
ear
could
also
faintly
distinguish
the
noises
of
the
laboratory.
Speaking
was
represented
by
a
phonogram
containing
a
dialogue
between
Mr.
Edison
and
Colonel
Gouraud
which
had
been
imprinted
some
three
weeks
before
in
America.
With
this
we
could
hear
the
inventor
addressing
his
old
friend,
and
telling
him
to
correspond
entirely
with
the
phonograph.
Colonel
Gouraud
answers
that
he
will
be
delighted
to
do
so,
and
be
spared
the
trouble
of
writing;
while
Edison
rejoins
that
he
also
will
be
glad
to
escape
the
pains
of
reading
the
gallant
colonel's
letters.
The
sally
is
greeted
with
a
laugh,
which
is
also
faithfully
rendered.
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