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interest," wrote Sir William Thomson. "I heard it speak distinctly of the first telephone, and the more they knew of science, the less they the receiver. "It DOES speak," he said emphatically. "It is the most first Atlantic Cable. He listened and learned what even he had not known were inclined to believe their ears. The wiser they were, the more they no one could forget the look of awe that came into his face as he heard venerable Joseph Henry, whose encouragement to Bell had been so timely. second metallic body. He nodded his head solemnly as he rose from wondered. To Henry and Thomson, the masters of electrical magic, this reports which they made as judges, when they gave Bell a Certificate vibrations could be carried along a wire and reproduced exactly by a countless varieties of vibrations produced by speech, and that these He stopped to listen, and, as one of the bystanders afterwards said, that iron disc talking with a human voice. "This," said he, "comes greatest marvel hitherto achieved by the electric telegraph." of Award. "Mr. Bell has achieved a result of transcendent scientific nearer to overthrowing the doctrine of the conservation of energy than scientist at that time in the world, and had been the engineer of the fitting that he should be there, for he was the foremost electrical both were noble enough to admit frankly their astonishment in the So, one after another, this notable company of men listened to the voice wonderful thing I have seen in America." before, that a solid metallic body could take up from the air all the instrument was as surprising as it was to the man in the street. And Then came Sir William Thomson, latterly known as Lord Kelvin. It was several sentences.... I was astonished and delighted.... It is the anything I ever saw."

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