THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
The Telephone. In the first quarter of the year 1876 a young Scots-American completed and lodged for patent rights in Washington the specifications for a new invention for ‘‘reproducing speech at a distance from the source.” The primitive instrument therein described, though of little practical value, was the progenitor of the modern telephone, which is, after all. surprisingly like its ancestor, the only divergences which it exhibits from the founder of the family being rather in detail than in principle. The amazing extent to which the usage of the telephone’s efficient service lias grown since Alexander Graham Bell first brought that service into existence is one of those scientific marvels which we are accustomed to take so lightly.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1926, Page 2
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122THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1926, Page 2
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