Musical Gas Machine Sparks Transatlantic Interest
A description of the pysophone, a three octave gas powered musical instrument with a keyboard like an organ, featuring long glass tubes and circulating gas jets that produce tones when separated. The piece also includes a letter from the editor of the Billville Banner lamenting local advertising woes and a broad survey of various global topics from unrest in Russia to American politics, with anecdotes on economic and social issues.
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Billville
Drankard’s Gulch
Waco (Tex
Ocean View
Abram Larkins
Seacoast
Hunt
Larkins
Justice Bunting Rec
Wilmington Star
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Sux
Lee
Moscow
Washin
Shakespeare
America
Richmond
Bastile
Queen Victoria
Charles 1
Fort Sum
Aeerees
Julius Cwser
Marengo
Waterloo
Unker Hill
Joan of Arc
New Orleans
Charlotte Sons
New York Times
Cleveland
Times
Tilden
New York
James R. O’beirne
Immi Et Bureau
United States
Russia
Riga
Rigé
Dinneberg
Baltimore Sun
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Ax Oldey
Orange County
Ind
Citicon
Totter
Army of the United States
Yale
Noeete
Ull
Atlanta Constitution
England
London
George F. Parker
Hamilton
Parker
New York Morning
Mae Heenee
West Point Nob
North Carolina
Philadelphia Times
South
North
Louisville
Atlanti
Montgomery
Raleigh
New Mexico
Arizona
Pennsylvania
Reb
North Carolina Exposition
Seer Gates
Ville
Amaill
Pintips Brooks
Diocese of
Moasaachusetts
Juliet
John
Cameron
Fayetteville
Col
Cincinnati
Iusk
Jewish Alliance of America
Ace Ton
Litchfield
Herbert L. King
Millard A Knye
M. F. King
York River
Lord Salisbury
Maryland
Ahraiembena
U. S. Gov't Report
Joe Caldwell
Statesville
Paris
W. A.slater &Co
Durham
W.A. Slater & CO
Wright Solding
Post Offic
Farthing & Duke
W. L.douglass
Shoes, Satter & Lewis &Co
OLD
Piedmont
National
Durham Bull
Woolford
N. M. Johnson & Co
Druggin
N.C
St. Vitus
Miles
Medadical Co
Elichhart
L. Douc
Coe
DUKE
Castoria
Ancuen
Oxford Gt
Brooklyn
N.Y
Marr
Rim
Celie
Rowin F. Panos, M.D
the Winthrop
120Th Street
Th Ave
New York City
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