The Phonogram, Vol. 2:4-5 (1892-04)

THE PHONOGRAM. Madame Reynier, widow of the celebrated electrician, Mr. Emile Reynier, of Paris, fias forwarded, to the address of The Phonogram, a model specimen of the elastic accumulator invented by her husband. This has been done at the personal reqdest of the editor and as a matter of courtesy on the part of the widow of the distinguished Inventor, who naturally desires that the labors and success of which this instrument is the wit- ness and proof should be known and appreci- ated in America. We published last Octol^r, a short sketch of the machine, promising to make it fuller. Accordingly, in the March issue, cuts of this battery and a full description were given. Our readers will please note that it is not the ac- cumulator itself which is to be disposed of in this country, but the patent-right to man- ufacture same, and this can be purchased at an exceedingly moderateJi^ure. The question of •'Storage Batteries in Cen- tral Station Works” is placed prominently before the publie in The Electrical Engineer, by a distinguished electrician and writer,* who recently inspected the worlfs at Paris. The most characteristic feature of the cells in the Paris manufactory is the size of the individual plates, which the writer, Mr. Currie, tells us A New Process of Duplicating Records. he • and in a " the e,e< tric '« ht sta “:' ns in Paris the plates weigh about twenty kilos We take pleasure in announcing that Mr. Edi- (44 pounds), the cell% containing fifteen to son has recently invented a process for the dupli- twenty-five of these plates. This would make cation of phonograph records, a secret known total weight of plates per cell half a ten ; and only to himself, whereby musical and all other last November they had begun te make t hem records can be multiplied to any extent and as heavy as a ton. equal the original iu tone and quality. But there is another feature in Paris which An arrangement has been effected with Mr. might be adopted io this country to great ad- Edison by which the North American Phono- vantage. graph Co. lias acquired exclusive control of these We prophesy that a company prepared to records, which are manufactured at Orange, N. J. furnish and maintain storage batteries, and to The North American Phonograph Co. have guarantee their performance at a fixed annual spared neither labor nor expense to obtain these charge, will find a large business awaiting Master Records . and have negotiated with all the them in America. best musical artists and musical organizations of And we likewise call attention to the Rey- ihe country, and many famous orators, lecturers, nier Accumulator in this connection, as being dramatic celebrities, etc., to furnish examples of just the apparatus needed in so many cases their special powers and sifts. These will be where other batteries have failed. The Business Phonograph in Texas. Mr. Thomas Conyngtnn. general manager of the Texas Phonograph Company, reports that the phonograph, as employed for commercial pur- poses and in law offices, courts and places of business, where records and writing of every description is carried on, promises well and has gained ground at various points, as letters from that section on another page of The Phono- gram, will show. The progress made by the phonograph iu popu- lar favor in cities and villages where oppor- tunities for engaging in extensive enterprises are lacking, caunot be measured by its advancement in great centers like New York, or in thickly populated States. But the outlook as indicated by these letters shows life and growth, and this state of affairs gives encouragement to those interested in the work.