you!" he shouted breathlessly. "I can hear the WORDS." He had created something so entirely new that there was no name for it remarkably keen sense of hearing, did the listening; and Bell, who was the sign-language of a deaf-mute. of the Patent Office, he was obliged to call it "an improvement in It was not easy, of course, for the weak young telephone to make itself of the baby instrument grew clearer--a new note in the orchestra of On his twenty-ninth birthday, Bell received his patent, No. symbols. But Bell worked from the standpoint of the human voice. He a professional elocutionist, did the talking. And day by day the tone civilization. they never did, and never could, get any better results than signs and telegraphy," when, in truth, it was nothing of the kind. It was as 174,465--"the most valuable single patent ever issued" in any country. study of "Visible Speech" had trained his mind so that he could mentally up three flights of stairs to tell the glad tidings to Bell. "I can hear different from the telegraph as the eloquence of a great orator is from distinctly-- familiar with its odd little voice. Usually Watson, who had a the wire, in the basement, dropped the receiver and rushed with wild joy Other inventors had worked from the standpoint of the telegraph; and learned how to manage it. Then, on March 10, 1876, IT TALKED. It said in any of the world's languages. In describing it to the officials heard in that noisy workshop. No one, not even Bell and Watson, was than gasp and make strange inarticulate noises. Its educators had not cross-fertilized the two sciences of acoustics and electricity. His "MR. WATSON, COME HERE, I WANT YOU." Watson, who was at the lower end of