THE WILLISTON GRAPHIC — MAY 26, 1904
CONVEYED TO MUNDANE SENSE BY RECENT INVENTION ♢ New York Scientist Claims to Have Discovered an Instrument for Capturing
the Music of the Spheres.
New York Special.
Sweet sounds from the stars, melodies from the spheres, angel voices from unseen realms of everlasting joy or wails of lost souls in unending torment, crashes of worlds in the making or unmaking, vibrant forces of nature audibly at work—which or what is Prof. Albert G. Albertson able to convey to the mundane sense of hearing by his latest discovery-invention? The professor inclines to the belief, one gathers from talking to him, that the mysterious sounds come from the stars, which word in this article means both suns and their satellite planets.
The instrument invented by Prof. Albertson resembles in some respects a combination phonograph, telephone and telescope.
“It is necessary to bear in mind,” said “The Star Wizard,” as he is called, “that light rays falling on a polished steel plate produce a tone. This is inaudible, however, unless the plate is connected with an electric circuit, also containing a microphone or a telephone earpiece. A number of small steel cylinders, varying in length and perfectly polished inside, are used instead of a plate or hollow steel shell. The cylinders are arranged within the box in such manner as to vibrate freely. The entire box is made part of an electric circuit from the battery, and in this circuit is contained also the microphone and telephone earpiece.
