Edison told the press
that would take about one year finish the machine and
perfect the recording the soundtrack but when Hutchison
joined the kinetophone work 1911 was not enjoying much
success.IX-33
The work the experimental machine had reached stage
in 1910 when could successfully demonstrated the
Press. The
thousands dollars spent years experiments had not
brought total success. The kinetophone team began 1912 one the longest
running experimental projects the laboratory's books. therefore worked
on electrical synchronizer which could operated remote
control. told Edison "We are against pretty stiff
proposition" getting good results out the machine. Preparations
were then made for the machine's commercial introduction but
. The large team experimenters finally
succeeded recording some kinetophone cylinders which passed
the "old man's" scrutiny the spring 1912. Hutchison felt that
the synchronizing cord was hopelessly inadequate for the job
and put too heavy burden the operator. He
tried using several horns get more balanced and louder
soundtrack but Edison told him that "thousands experiments"
with two more horns had yielded good results and "we
always returned one horn and threw away the rest. The laboratory was naturally the scene this
demonstration which included announcer making various sounds
and dancer with musical accompaniment." 4^
Experiments continued recording and the synchronization
device which was still not satisfactory
