Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — WIZARD EDISON. [ARTICLE]

WIZARD EDISON.

Some of His Wonderful Inventions—What a Cincinnati Man Te.ls Alwiut the Work of the Great Electrician. (Cincinnati special.] A gentleman who has just returned from Florida, where he spent a month with Edison, said, in an interview to-day, speaking of the recently reported invention of artificial food: “He has already perfected this discovery so that an army need carry no food. All it needs is to take along two or three of Edison’s machines and turn the elements into food, as it is needed. But he has been doing other things. For instance, he has invented what he calls the miragephone. It is like a telephone, only you look in it instead of putting it to your ear, and you see what is going on at the other end. By putting a mirageJbone on the end of a telegraph wire at St. ouis, fixing the corresponding instrument at this end, you have a perfect picture of what is going on there. He has also invented a telegraph transmitter that writes its own message in typewriter. You put your message in a box at this end, turn a crank, and at the other end the typewriter rattles off with lightning speed. “To amuse his wife he rigged up a buggy with electric;, motors in the hubs of the wheels. It would R° at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Then he invented a new way to catch fish. All he does is to run a wire out on the bottom of the sea or river, and he has some electrical effect or other so that every fish that swims above it immediately dies and comes floating to the surface.”