translatophone

I called a translatophone, I was naturally anxious to see how it would work with some other person than myself at the mouth-piece.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

During a walk of a couple of miles I thought nearly all the time of what the monkeys might say to me if I should attach a wide mouth-piece to my translatophone and place it against the bars of their cage.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

One thing was certain: no matter what else happened, I must not take that translatophone to Mary.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

To go to a foreigner and ask him to speak into my instrument, using a language he could readily assure himself I did not speak or understand, would be the same thing as an avowal of what the translatophone was intended to do.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

It would be impossible then to destroy the translatophone.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

The thought that these little creatures, so nearly allied to man, might disclose to me their dispositions, their hopes, their ambitions, their hates, their reflections upon mankind, had such a sudden and powerful influence on me that I felt like seizing my translatophone and rushing off to the Zoölogical Gardens.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

An American or an Englishman, or any one speaking English, could take with him a translatophone and travel around the world, understanding the language of every nation, of every people -- the polished tongues of civilization, the speech of the scholars of the Orient, and even the jabber of the wild savages of Africa.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

Up to this moment, except through the translatophone, she had not addressed me by my name in any form; and every tentative lover knows that when his lady addresses him as though he had no name it means that she does not wish to use his formal title and that the time has not arrived for her to call him by his Christian name.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

All he would have to do would be to pretend that he was deaf and dumb, and my simple translatophone might put him into communication with the minds of every grade and variety of humanity.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

I took my translatophone from my pocket, and laid it on the table beside us.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868