The Phonogram, Vol. 2:2 (1892-02)

36 THE PHONOGRAM. Chicago’s Practical Appreciation of the Phonograph. The American Book Company have now had in use in their offices at Chicago for three or four months six of the Edison phonographs. The gentlemen using these machines report them as successful and practical in every way, and of great ad- vantage in saving time in the office. Many more letters are written by tlie typewntist or copyist who takes the work from the machine in another part of the building from where it is dictated. The use of the phonograph as a business machine is grow- ing in Chicago. A Few Suggestions. 1 have been a constant user of the pho- nograph in connection with the typewriter for the past year and a half. At first 1 was in the habit of using the double hear- ing tube, but botli ears being closed to outward sounds it occurred to me to use a hearing tube with only one outlet. This I have been using for the past twelve months. The result is that 1 can hear everything going on in the office as well as though 1 had no tubes in my ears. 1 assist the voice of the dictator by having what I term a perfect knife, the result being that on all the blanks used here no other sound can be heard but the voice. The car bulb 1 use has a shorter bend than the regular bulb, so that it leans more against the face and rests securely in the ear. The rubber tube is about half as]«»ng again as the ordinary one, giving full play to the hand or arm in anv wav. m * If phonograph operators would adopt these few suggestions there would be less “ kicking” against the machine. W. M. Benxmk. Forty-one electric light plants have been established in the South during the past three months. Conclusive Testimony of the Efficacy of the Phonograph in Curing Deafness. For the purpose of learning how much truth there was in the claim that a dis- covery had been made for the certain cure of deafness by means of the phonograph and whether the method was being used in Washington, and if so, who was the first physician to adopt it here, the writer called upon Dr. Deorge A. Eeeoh. specialist in diseases of the eye, ear and throat, and requested from him a state- ment in reference to the matter. The Doctor was at first reluctant to talk for publication, but finally consented, “in the interest of humanity.”, as lie put it, to make the following statement : “ When 1 first heard of this adaptation of the phonograph to the cun* of deafness 1 was naturally skeptical, but I concluded to thoroughly investigate it before passing • judgment. I visited Dr. GarcyV clinic in Baltimore, questioned his patients who had been cured, also those then undergo- ing treatment, and was truly surprised and astonished at the successful results, I became so convinced of the efficacy of the method employed, and the wonderful results that have been and can be accom- plished. £hat I have, as you see (pointing to the patients who were being treated) already adopted the method with my own patients, both in my clinic and private practice. •* My success has been simply phenome- nal. and. considering the simplicity of the principle now it has been discovered. 1 am surprised that thi< adaptation of the phonograph to the cure of deafness was not earlier discovered by the great lights of the profession, whose reilected brilli- ancy has been shining down upon us. But it is a repetition of the same old story, proven again and again, especially in science and matters of invention, and in # all great discoveries. I'pon the phono-