Toys That Obey Your V^oice 



Talk, sing, whistle, clap your hands 

 and they perform their antics for you 



WITHIN the last two or tlircu 

 years a number of inventors 

 [ia\e Uirneti their aUention ^'' 

 to the making of toys. Tiie re 

 suit has been a series of con- 

 tri\ances of great original 

 ity and novelty. As an 

 example of these 

 new arrivals, 

 the various sets 

 made up of toy 

 I-l:)eams and 

 cog-wheels and 

 such by which 

 >'oung builders 

 construct mar- 

 vels in the way 

 of bridges and 

 engines and 

 clocks, etc., 

 may be cited. 

 Still another 

 toy consists of 

 long wooden 

 rods which may 

 be put together 

 in such assorted ways that anything 

 from a windmill to a realistic airship ma>- 

 come into being. Rut for sheer novelty, 

 a new st\le of toy devised by a New 

 York inventor. Mr. H. diristian Berger, 

 has easily strongest hold on the atten- 

 tion. 



E\erybody knows that a loud 

 sound may so jar a tele- 

 ])hone transmitter that it 

 will cause a wa\e of elec- 

 tric current to flow through 

 an electromagnet, or in 

 some cases, a relay, am 

 cause the electromag- 

 net or the relay to 

 act. If the jar is 

 great enough to cause 

 the electromagnet to 

 release a spring or 

 le\'er you can im.igine 

 the possibilities. 



On this |)riiiciple 

 Mr. Berger has buiil 

 a little kennel six or 



The secret of the wireless pup's obedience to 

 the clapping of your hands is a microphone 



bexen inches high with a 

 wooden bull-dog in mission 

 finish standing half way 

 out of the entrance. 

 Blow a shrill whistle 

 cir clap your hands 

 and the dog in- 

 slanth' leaps 

 out of his ken- 

 nel. He seems 

 ali\e, and yet, 

 when you pick 

 him up,\oufind 

 that he is so 

 much dead 

 wood, without 

 a spring or me- 

 chanical attach- 

 ment of any 

 kind. The ex- 

 planation is 

 that the sound 

 of the whistle or 

 of the luuul- 

 clapping has af- 

 fected a tele- 

 phone transmitter concealed within the 

 kennel, causing an electromagnet to re- 

 lease a spring which propcled the dog 

 outward. 



Still another t(>>- which utilizes the 

 .sound-wave-telephone-transmitter jirin- 

 cijile is an imposing toy bank. To de- 

 posit money in the bank, you place the 

 coin on a lever King across the front 

 steps, clap >our hands, and presto! 



.lAT PICCE OF 

 MtlAL OR'nOPPl* 



Place the coin on 

 the lever. clnp your 

 hands, and presto! 

 the lever "flops" 

 it into the bank 



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