Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — A WONDERFUL INVENTION [ARTICLE]

A WONDERFUL INVENTION

That Originated in the Fertile Brain of a San FrincUco Man. A San Francisco man has invented a machine which will do away with typewriters, both instruments and operators, if he succeeds in perfecting his invention. The new machine combines the phonograph and the typewriter, and in looks nears considerable resemblance to a cash register. On the front of the machine are small alec trio buttons which you press before talking into the mouthpiece projecting from the u >per part. This mouthpiece is connected with a revolving cylinder which receives impressions in a way similar to the Edison phonograph. A traveling needle regulates the position of the impressions on the cylinder according to the size of the paper they are to be reproduced on. The filled cylinder is placed on rollers in the lower part of the machine. Above the rollers is a supply of paper for receiving the written characters. There are several mysteries about the working of the new invention. No ink is used, the written characters being produced in a bold, round hand by chemical action. It spells entirely by sound and is unable as yet to cope wit h the diphthong, the silent letter, the capital, the semicolon or figures, but it will receive the sound of the human voice in any language except Chinese and reproduce them in plain English cuirography.