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The Phonogram (1900-10)

Page scan 00023 from The Phonogram

Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram
Date:
1900-10
Volume:
The Phonogram (II), Issue 6
Leaf #:
00023
Language:
English
Subjects:
honograph,"Phonograph History, Thomas Edison","National Phonograph Company","Sound Recording History
Collection:
Recorded Sound
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 20, 2022
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THE PHONOGRAM 1S4 culminating point of a generation of vague strivings had been reached. The fanciful foreshadowings of a hundred years had suddenly found fulfillment. The leading strings of centuries of thought converged on the tin foil covered cylinder, which echoed back through Time, triumphantly to Cros, mockingly to Fenby and to Scott, kindly to Duhamel, Creed and Unger, pityingly to Faber, Vaucanson and Roger Bacon, respectfully to de Bergerac and the pro- phets, and gramercy to Amenophis III, the Memnon maker. It is wonderful indeed, to contemplate the events of the '.entury immediately preceding the birthday of the Phono- raph. They indicate the strange trend of human inven- tion; how it pointed in a given direction during a given time; how it needed but the presence of the great inventor to king forth the solid truth, even as from an over-satur- ated solution there suddenly appears the shining crystal when the exact condition has finally arrived. (to bx coktinuxd). The Colonel drew a bowie knife. “ I am, however, open to conviction ! ” the other at once hastened to exclaim.' • - * M Very well, suh. In that case, suh, I won’t open you any moah 1 No suh ! ’ * said the Colonel with stately courtesy, and sheathed his cutlery.— From the Detroit Journal ,.