Thomas Cooke and the Singing Telephone
April
10th
1878
Some
important improvements have been made upon Professor Bells’
telephone recently in York by Mr E Cox Walker of Messrs T Cooke and
Sons, opticians of this city.
Reporters
had the privilege on the evening of Wednesday 10th
April 1878 of witnessing some experiments with the improved telephone
on Messrs Cook’s premises in Coney Street with Mr Cox Walker.
Conversations were carried out and songs sung through the type of
telephone designed by Professor Bell and the new improved telephone
of Mr Cox Walker. Comparisons could be made and it was found that the
Cox Walker telephones were twice as affective as transmitting sounds.
The
results were not only in the transmission of the human voice but
precisely the same effect was observable when the strains of a violin
and a small musical box were sent through. The softest notes of the
violin were heard with marvellous clearness.
Mr
Cox Walker hopes to be able to improve the intensity of the sound.
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| Advert from 1878 for telephones from Cookes |
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