but had been making experiments with two remarkable machines--the send as many messages simultaneously over one wire as there are notes on you a millionaire." "If I can make a deaf-mute talk," he said, "I can make iron talk." For ahead with your musical telegraph, which if it is successful will make him. He had not been forgetful of "Visible Speech" all this while, an evidence that we may some day have a musical telegraph, which will of replacing the telegraph and its cumbrous sign-language by a new reproduced by the strings of the harp. that piano." a scientific toy. You had better throw that idea out of your mind and go At first he conceived of having a harp at one end of the wire, and a SIGHT--by learning an alphabet of vibrations. He mentioned these Then, in the early Summer of 1874, while he was puzzling over this harp apparatus, the dim outline of a new path suddenly glinted in front of Later, Bell ventured to confide to Hubbard his wild dream of sending im-proved, he thought, then the deaf might be taught to speak by machine that would carry, not dots and dashes, but the human voice. months he wavered between the two ideas. He had no more than the most phonautograph and the manometric capsule, by means of which the vibrations of sound were made plainly visible. If these could be speaking-trumpet at the other, so that the tones of the voice would be But the longer Bell toiled at his musical telegraph, the more he dreamed Hubbard. "It is a fact of tremendous importance," replied Bell. "It is speech over an electric wire, but Hubbard laughed him to scorn. "Now you are talking nonsense," he said. "Such a thing never could be more than hazy conception of what this voice-carrying machine would be like.