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THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD.
Ai\ VoususlI Opportunity For 8l Small Investment
Buffalo Times— "The one weakness of the telephone as a means of communication — that it keeps no record — has been eliminated."
Washington Post —
''There is no scratching sound, the words coming from the machine as clearly as from a human throat."'
Cleveland Plain Dealer
— "A thoroughly practical piece of office equipment, for which the demand has already outrun the supply."
Pittsburgh Gazette —
"Promises to make as many fortunes as were made by the Mergenthaler tj^pesetting machine."
Had you invested only $10 in Bell Telephone stock a few years ago you could sell your interests to-day for more than $20,000. Such opportunities for fortune-making investments occur only once or twice in a lifetime, when some great practical discovery is made which like the telephone, is susceptible of a "basic patent," securing to its owners an absolute and legitimate monopoly.
Such an opportunity is now open to the first few investors whose quick intelligence will enalile them to see the vast practical usefulness of the
TelegrapKone
The general interest in this epoch-making invention has grown day by day until it is now the most earnestly discussed device in scientific and commercial circles throughout the world. This is because men realize that the practical usefulness of the TELEGRAPKONE will quickly make it a coveted thing
for every man who has a telephone,
or owns a typewriter,
or employs a stenographer,
or enjoys amusement,
or wishes to learn a foreign language,
or is deprived of his eyesight,
or writes letters,
or sends telegrams. The TELEGRAPHONE has a broader field and a greater future than the telephone, the telegraph, the typewriter, or the phonograph, because
It renders a telephone conversation as tangible and as safe as a written contract, —
It supplements greatly both the wire telegraph and the wireless, —
It supersedes the phonograph in the office and in the home, —
It is not only a wonderful saver of time, but also a great convenience, and insurance against error, both for the correspondent and the typewriter.
LARGE CLAIMS? Yes, but you will agree that these are modest claims when you have seen this perfected machine in operation and perceived its marvelous capabilities. Ever}' one of these claims will be demonstrated to your entire satisfaction.
The U. S. Patent Office will tell you that practically all patents issued are based upon improvements or modifications of some already known scientific or mechanical device, but that the TELEGRAPHONE is one '&i those rare instances of a discovery susceptible of a "basic patent," because it embodies entirely new principles of applied science. It is an application of electro-magnetism by which sound waves, even those produced hy the minutest whisper or respiration, are electrically projected into the mole
cules of steel, there to remain and be reproduced at will. There have not been a dozen basic patents of importance issued in the last quarter of a century, and without a single exception such basic patents (legitimate monopolies) have made vast fortunes for early investors.
A limited portion of the treasury stock in the American Telegraphone Company will be sold to the earliest applicants at $10 per share. Each subscriber will be limited to a few shares, because the more investors we have, the more general will be the interest aroused in the Telegraphone. THERE ARE NO PREFERENCE SHARES AND NO BONDS— ALL SHARES ARE ALIKE AND EACH SHARE CARRIES WITH IT THE RIGHT TO VOTE, so that with a single share you will have every right, privilege and protection possessed by any other stockholder, and being in at the birth of a great industrial business, you can not only watch it grow, but also assist in some measure in your ovvn community, until the TELEGRAPHONE surpasses in magnitude, as it surely will, such vast interests as the Telephone, Air-brake, Phonograph, Sewing-machine, Kodak, and many other industries which originally started in a small way, but by real merit have achieved enormous power in the commercial world.
The net proceeds of the present limited sale will be devoted entirely to manufacturing and to enlarging and equipping the plant for the manufacture and sale of the TELEGRAPHONE. The instrument has met with an immediate demand of surprising proportions — orders having already been received for a number far in excess of the factory's utmost capacity of production for many months to come.
We invite your fullest investigation. If you cannot call to see the TELEGRAPHONE in operation.
-THEN CUT OUT THIS BLANK AND MAIL IT TO US TO-DAY
With your permission, we should like to mail you,
entirely at our expense, an illustrated booklet describing the Telegraphone. and pointing out some of the tar-reaching influences which tliis unique invention is already beginning to exert upon scientiflc. .sdcial and commercial life. To avoid all chance of error or delay in forwarding this booklet to you, please write very plainly :
YUUI! IflRST NAME SPELLED 0T3T :
MIDDLE INITIAL :
YOnR LAST NAME :
.Mli., llliS. OK TITLE :
rOUE MAIL ADDRESS (P. 0. BOX, OR STREET AND NDMBER)
YOUIt RESIDENCE (CITY AND ST.VrE);' ,[K651BR]
Our object in the free distribution of these interesting booklets is primarily to inform the public of the practical capabilities of this remarkable discovery, and so by returning this blank, with the particulars asked above, you will be placing yourself under no obligation whatever to us. In tiie belief that you will wish to take advantage of a most unusual opportunity to make a small, safe and very profitable investment, we will mail with the booklet full information as to how you may secure a few shares of a limited issue of treasury stock, which is about to be made. sterling DEBENTURE CORPORATION.
56 Wall Street, New York.
F. C. MacLeax, Manager.