THE TELEPHONE.
Wlho wiaslflie, inventor of itihie telephone? A German paper declares ihsdi [ the s inventcr ,was "a > 'Giarinanl : ofttoe (njaan© of Reds. It geem® that the ' "fket public exhibition of ifo©, appar- [ at/u» from which the telephone' ha®' I developed on /Qctober '26 th, 1861, and. ■ ■'. JMs •imachinip; Reik. ' Like most great inventoa-s he ; began his work as. a young man, and a boy of eighteen! he designed' an inatniimenit for (transmitting the sound of imiusic. Tlins was- tihe first iidtea, for 'ithe transmission' of thle human voice •wais regarded as a- mechanicail curiosity until much later. It was not, we •believe, until 1876 that a Scotsman •of. tihe name of Bell perfected and patented a telephone in. this sense. •No doubt there are. many other claimants to the title of inventor. It As a curious fact th.'.fc all the grealb I lilnyenitioiiiS have had nany claimants, and that various, mindr, in different countries often hit on tine same idea at the same time.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10507, 20 December 1911, Page 4
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165THE TELEPHONE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10507, 20 December 1911, Page 4
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