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three hundred, or three thousand, or three million, so that any two of tiny electric messenger, and to create a system of wire highways along instrument at each end. There were no operators, switchboards, or would echo the tramp of a fly that walked across a table, or repeat in and a most stupendous one--how to link together three telephones, or except the deaf and dumb--could use it without any previous experience. them could be joined at a moment's notice. then, and is yet, the most sensitive instrument that has ever been put to general use in any country. It opened up a new world of sound. It SYSTEM OF ANY SORT WHATEVER. adequate, no theory of tests or signals, no exchanges, NO TELEPHONE to make this system so simple and fool-proof that every one--every one wanted to be in the same conversational group. This was a larger use of sum total of Bell's invention, and remains to-day as he made it. It was mystery and "the powers of the air"; they had not only to protect their which he could run up and down safely; they had to do more. They had the telephone; and while Bell himself had foreseen it, he had not worked any account, no cables of any value, no wires that were in any sense young men received, and this was all. There were no switchboards of As for Bell's first telephone lines, they were as simple as And that was not all. These young men had not only to battle against clothes-lines. Each short little wire stood by itself, with one They had to educate Bell's Genie of the Wire so that he would not only New Orleans the prattle of a child in New York. This was what the out a plan whereby it could be carried out. Here was the new problem, exchanges. But there had now come a time when more than two persons of the telephone that we call the receiver. This was practically the