A meeting of the above Committee was °Present—W. S. Wetmore With the apparatus deser Thea above, the voice could us he convared & ths Heliaes at the other end, as the phone was not sufficiently sensitive.
Too low a tone in but raising the tone till did vibrate, raised the voice surrounded and deluged sound, similar only to thousands of Chinese crackers exploded) in a resounding vault or 'A blow with a ruler on a desk 10 feet off luced the same effect, and a half inch screw allowed to fall on the sounding board caused a request from the listener, "Don't do that again—it was fearful."
A fall of snipe shot from a paper held about six inches from the board and allowed to roll out two or three at a time, sounded cracks of rifled arti nothing but heavy rolls of thunder with artillery fired at close quar- el As this rough specimen of a Microphone was received from Mr. Forbes, stating his gentle pores by tosa head-aches, it was evidently fit for nothing but converting inability to be present.
A communication was received from Mr. was dismantled, the drawer returned to Forrest, describing the hopefulness of the the table, and the pieces of carbon thrown coming' harvest and the propriety of gradually stopping the ollecbonn in England, into the waste box.
But now a second Microphone was pro-After a—- K~ subject, it to telegram Secretary o! duced, smaller than, but equally ready-made, f with its predecessor. Although made of a the London Committee to the following piece of teakwood broken out of a be: and a small Japanese toy box sore 00d, can Telax efforts collecting,"
"Gill great distress, but crop, prospects down on it, ita construction required all the more care and thought, as well as In view of Mr. Richard's letter, appealing in behalf of the orphans gathered in actual experiment, before it could brought to such pitch of refinement as ang in connection with the fanino must be evidently necessary to produce the in' aid' of the insétution ho had eax, it was agreed to grant effects we are about to describe.
'The carbons of the Hughes' Microphono tablished. were here substituted by a perhaps more sensitive arrangement of two platinum Hon, Sec. plates, platinised thickly, and brought into Shanghai, 24th July. contact very lightly with each other. At the listening end, the voice when very low and equable, was heard fully and distinctly Miscellaneous. some of the higher inflections and tones, however, which could not be altogether suppressed, similar effect to the voice in the first experiments, Alady's voice
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