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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1878)
October, 1878. THE WEST SHORE. 43 THE PHONOMOTOR. The phonomotor is a machine in which the vibrations produoed by the human voice are ap plied so ai to prodnoe viaible motion. The vi brations aro allowed to lint produce correspond ing vibrations in a regular phonograph dia ; ua!unum liio ugure). by means of piece of rubber tubing placed against the dia phragm, the vibrations are thou transmitted to a spring, which in turn vibrates in unison with the diaphraghm, and thus with the voice. To the spring is attached a pawl. If auy of the uninitiated do not know what a pawl is, they may be referred to' the oapstans of steamors. Those little hinged irons that, whon tho cap stan has been turned a few inches, fall down with a click, and prevent the capstan from turn ing back again, will give one a very good idea of what a pawl is. Tho pawl on the phonomo tor spring rests on tho edgo of a notched whovl. t'OCOANUT OIL MANUKACTUUK. The Alameda Oil Manufacturing oompany is oxtonaively engaged in tho manufacture of oil from coooanut. It has a lino of schooners ruu ning between this ort and the South Sea Islands whioh bring at regnlsr Intervals car goes of tho cocoa. Tho fruit is gathored whon ripe, by the natives, and the outer husk and shell being stripped nil', and tho meat broken into small fragments, it is packed in sacks and ready for shipmont Previous, however, to its packing, it is thoroughly driod in the sun, and thereby undergoes a procoss by whioh the fibrous matter 11 to a certain oxtent loosened, rendering tho oily substance more easy for ex traction. The process nf manufacture is similar to that used in the production of cotton seed oil. The cakes are first ground into a meal, then placed in sacks, about 10 inches wide by '.'l Inches long. These aro placed in numerous compart ments of a hydraulic press, and submitted to a THE TKLEMACHON. Since Mr. Kdison's wonderful inventions have been brought forward, the country has (wen seised with a desperate hankering after the wonderful and the popular interest and iu rtttkon' iiopea run high. So much is said of astonishing matters in the Eastern daily papers, that one lurdly knows what to believe and what to laugh at We nail that at Ansouia, Conn., William Wallace is experimenting with a now electrical machine. He calls it the tele inaction, and claims that by it, when perfected, iHiwer can be transmitted hundreds of miles through an ordinary cable. Kor instance, a team engine in Suranton, I 'a., could l ooa hoc tod by a cable with a factory in New York and the Utter le run for the ooet nf the cable and the greatly decreased ooet of coal in He ran -ton, W ith this now invention working aa it is claimed it will, the cities near the coal mines would become vast centers of power tilled with engines stitllcieut to run all the factorial of the ONK OK EDISON'S LATEST -THK PIIONM.MOTttlt. When the vibration of the voice vibrates the di aphragm, which in turn puahoa the spring nut, the pawl catches in a notch of the wheel, and pushes the wheel around a distance enrrospc Hid ing to the distanoe the spring vibrates. When, in its vibration, the diaphrauhm goes back, tho spring goes back also, anil with it tho iawl. The pawl, in returning, oatchoa on one of the other notches, and when the diaphragm cmnua forward again, the spring is ready to push the wheel around still further. 80 the phuiiomo tor, with the powor exerted by the voice alnne, the whoel may be set into quite rapid motion, and after a careful series of exeriiiioiiW with this new invention it will liecoine possible to measure and comiare voices with regard to their strength and pitch. The engravings on this page, which are taken from the Selrnltlif Amrritan, show how simple the contrivance is. Kig. 1 shows the phn nomotor displayed so that all its mechanism appears. Kig. 2 shows the way iu which the sound is applied to produce the motion. No HnMDLAirrM, The iJorlor says that the other day a physician, to a patient inquiring, "What ought I to take or to do when my feel ings of exhaustion come on T" replied, "oand lie down like any other beast" pressure sufficient to extract the oil. The real due, in the form of cakes, is eeiieoially adapted to feeding stock, containing highly nutritive ipialities. The oil is used at prosoiit for lubri cating purposes, and also in the manufacture of aoap; but thore is no reason why it cannot eventually be relliiod to the extent of producing from it a palatable salad oil. This company is established at Alameda Point, and very little is known, generally, of the enterprise. The isl ands furnish this commodity to various coun tries of the world, Australia and California lieing the largest consumers, and an income of no inconsiderable amount thereby accrues an nually to the natives. The Marshal and Oil liert grouM furnish the largest amount. Win timl SrirnHir I'rru. Hr.T 'ihih itivitv. KiperimeuU lately made by M. Hchuhmeuter on the heat enndue tivity of cotton, wool and ilk, by a method similar to that employed by Stefan for determin ing the conducting power of gases, have leal to the following results Tim hot - u I s turn of air being considered I, that of cotton Is (on tho average) .17, sheep' wool 12, and silk 1 1 -, the cotton and toe wool -ere unwrought. The latter was washed merino wool ; the silk was iu the state nf oooooa fibers. Mi-Mi.- NUtes at one half the present oott of fuel. Mills would be filled with whirring spindles and rattling looms hundreds of miles away from the engines that run them, duly a small wire cable entering a building would show the source, though hsrdly the philosophy, of the transmitted foroe. The iossilnliliss of the invention go further. The cable can lie tapped like a telegraph wire, so that one oiitinunus oable can do the whole work of the country, provided there is power enough at the starting point These are the possibilities of the Ulemaehon as devslnied by Wallace. Hut Kdisoii has been down to Ansnnia and discovered still grester possibilities. Hk is 1. .nil. lent that tint uiily ran power lie transmitted by the telemachoii, but that light end heat can lie created by it This would dn away with the use of coal almost on Urely. I treat nulls could be run by Niagara through the instrumentality nf the tefemaohnu, end lighted ami heated by the instrument itself The displacing nf manual labor by the one would thus he more than mad good by the decrease in the coat of living brought about by the other. In other words, the problem nf physical Ufa ami action would be solved, and the world would nuke a struts of countless centuries towards the initlenium.