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News got about last week that Thomas Alva Edison had invented a phonograph record that will play 40 minutes. In West Orange, N. J., Mr. Edison verified the report. The record, which has 450 music grooves to the inch, will be placed on the market in a month. And how, asked a reporter, would this effect the interest in radio? Mr. Edison (he is 79 now) twisted his soft grey face into a smile...
...youthful head of one of the largest concerns in America, who graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology about 12 years ago, left Boston last night after terminating a tour of ten large cities for the purpose of announcing a new type of Edison phonograph and record. As head of the Thomas A. Edison Industries, Inc., Mr. Edison is primarily interested in the commercial end of the business rather than the strictly technical...
Demonstrates New Phonograph...
After interrupting his comments with a demonstration of the new Edison phonograph which plays for 40 minutes at a time, Mr. Edison continued, "The radio, I believe, is more of a competitor with the newspapers, through its news and announcements, than is the phonograph. The new record is not intended primarily to meet radio competition, but to satisfy what has been called the natural laziness of the American people...
...inaudible to the human ear. Such a sound can be made with a violin but no Tetrazzini, no Galli-Curci, could make it. With these notes topping his vocal scale Mr. Kellogg has learned to imitate and even improve upon the songs of birds; to imitate insect calls. His phonograph records, including a choral effect obtained by playing many records into one, are well known and remarkable. Sympathetic vibration has been another of his studies-finding the note that will make a dog howl, a small object tremble. He has propounded the theory that sympathetic vibration...