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After the telephone had been born in Boston, baptized in the Patent back and forth between the two ends of the wire like a pair of delighted children. And thus it happened that the crude little instrument that It had been conceived in a cellar and born in a machine-shop; and now, a telescope into a steel-mill or to hitch a balloon to a shoe-factory." toy," said the men of trade and commerce. "It is an interesting ridicule. He was an "impostor," a "ventriloquist," a "crank who says Poor Bell, instead of being applauded, was pelted with a hailstorm of set down the very surprising fact that the young newcomer received no one-hundredth birthday, the telephone was honored as the rarest and most it can never be a practical necessity. As well might you propose to put turns at the telephone. Then, next morning, they brought the apparatus of all the gifts that our young American Republic had received on its welcome of them all. the Centennial. It had been given no more than eighteen words in the had been tossed into an out-of-the-way corner became the star of might be supposed that its life thenceforth would be one of peace and pleasantness. But as this is history, and not fancy, there must be Until nearly ten o'clock that night the judges talked and listened by to the judges' pavilion, where for the remainder of the summer it was he can talk through a wire." The London Times alluded pompously to the mobbed by judges and scientists. Sir William Thomson and his wife ran instrument, of course, for professors of electricity and acoustics; but official catalogue, and here it was acclaimed as the wonder of wonders. Office, and given a royal reception at the Philadelphia Centennial, it CHAPTER II. THE BUILDING OF THE BUSINESS welcome and no notice from the great business world. "It is a scientific

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