The Phonogram : New Uses for the Phonograph 1914
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 2:22 am
From The Phonogram January, 1914 (2Cents)
Some New Uses for the Phonograph
The phonograph has been temporarily installed as an adjunct to the telephone service in Berlin Germany.
When the line gets out of order the phonograph automatically calls out to would be talkers, " Line is not working."
The operator may also switch on the phonograph to ask persons what number they want. It is said for the new instrument that it is so nearly inaudible that the work of the exchange can be carried on with less noise and wear and tear.
Another novel use for the phonograph has been introduced into the Public Library of Los Angeles, California. A music room, equipped with pianos, has been fitted up; on these, patron of the library can try over any music on hand to find out if they can play it, or if they care to buy if. Later on a phonograph is to be added to the musical instruments and records can be played for the benefit of lovers of phonograph music, in making selections before purchasing new records. The room is to made sound proof so that readers in other parts of the library may not be disturbed.
Still another novel use of the phonograph: Bank notes that speak have just been patented by an English bank note expert and are expected to be adopted in the near future when bank officials find themselves the victim of rogues.
The principle of this invention lies in the application to the edge of a bank note of a "pictorial" record of some specially arranged phrase. A bank note so provided would, when placed in a phonograph, reproduce this phrase for the benefit of the back manager or the person disputing the genuineness of the note.
Assume that the code phrase for a five-pound note is "five pound note." This would be extremely unlikely, but would serve to illustrate the point. A pictorial record of the oscillations produced during the utterance of the phrase would be made and a die cut capable of reproducing the peculiar wave of lines. With this die the edge of the five-pound note would become perforated. The note then becomes, in addition to a unit in currency, a phonographic record of it's own genuineness.
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Could you imagine if that would of taken hold? Money..that could play on a phonograph.
Neat idea.
Hope everyone is having a good night.
Iva
Some New Uses for the Phonograph
The phonograph has been temporarily installed as an adjunct to the telephone service in Berlin Germany.
When the line gets out of order the phonograph automatically calls out to would be talkers, " Line is not working."
The operator may also switch on the phonograph to ask persons what number they want. It is said for the new instrument that it is so nearly inaudible that the work of the exchange can be carried on with less noise and wear and tear.
Another novel use for the phonograph has been introduced into the Public Library of Los Angeles, California. A music room, equipped with pianos, has been fitted up; on these, patron of the library can try over any music on hand to find out if they can play it, or if they care to buy if. Later on a phonograph is to be added to the musical instruments and records can be played for the benefit of lovers of phonograph music, in making selections before purchasing new records. The room is to made sound proof so that readers in other parts of the library may not be disturbed.
Still another novel use of the phonograph: Bank notes that speak have just been patented by an English bank note expert and are expected to be adopted in the near future when bank officials find themselves the victim of rogues.
The principle of this invention lies in the application to the edge of a bank note of a "pictorial" record of some specially arranged phrase. A bank note so provided would, when placed in a phonograph, reproduce this phrase for the benefit of the back manager or the person disputing the genuineness of the note.
Assume that the code phrase for a five-pound note is "five pound note." This would be extremely unlikely, but would serve to illustrate the point. A pictorial record of the oscillations produced during the utterance of the phrase would be made and a die cut capable of reproducing the peculiar wave of lines. With this die the edge of the five-pound note would become perforated. The note then becomes, in addition to a unit in currency, a phonographic record of it's own genuineness.
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Could you imagine if that would of taken hold? Money..that could play on a phonograph.
Neat idea.
Hope everyone is having a good night.
Iva