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A telephone wire required the daintiest of handling. To bury it was to Telephone. He was himself a student by disposition, with a special taste that he might bequeath to the telephone an engineering corps of loyal overhead method had been outgrown. Some streets in the larger cities had smother it, to make it dull or perhaps entirely useless. But now merest shred of rust. As if these troubles were not enough, there were and efficient men. group of college graduates--he has sixty of them on his staff to-day--so as they had escaped from the clamor of the mysterious noises, was the They had done this, not because it was cheap, but because it was the necessity of taking down the wires in the city streets and putting them Spencer, the philosopher. And in 1890, he gathered around him a winnowed alone they had overspread eleven thousand roofs. These roofs had to be From poles the wires soon overflowed to housetops, until in New York along West Street, New York--every pole a towering Norway pine, with its The next problem that faced the young men of the telephone, as soon kept in repair, and their chimneys were the deadly enemies of the iron wires. Many a wire, in less than two or three years, was withered to the three hundred wires. underground. At first, they had strung the wires on poles and roof-tops. sixty--seventy--eighty. Finally the highest of all pole lines was built top ninety feet above the roadway, and carrying thirty cross-arms and for the writings of Faraday, the forerunner; Tyndall, the expounder; and American Telephone and Telegraph Company became the University of the that the number of wires had swollen from hundreds to thousands, the only possible way, so far as any one knew in that kindergarten period. become black with wires. Poles had risen to fifty feet in height, then

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