Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-04-20
Talking to the Telephone.

Prof. Youmans, in Popular Science
Monthly, says: When we begin to use
telephone for the first time, there is a
sense of oddity, almost of foolishncss, in
the experiment. The dignity of talking
consists in having listener and there
seems a kind of absurdity in address
ing piece Of iron, but VIC must
raise our respect for the metal, for it is
any thing but deaf. The diaphragm of
the telephone, the thin iron plate, is as
sensitive as the tympanum to all tho del
icate refinements of sound. Nor does it
depend upon the thinuess of the metallic
sheet, foria piece Of thick boiler plate will
take up and transmit the motions of the
air.particles in all the grades of their
subtlety. And not only will it do the
same thing Us the tympanum, but it will
do vastly more. The gross, dead metal
proves, in fact, to he hundred times
more alive than the living mechanism of
speed and addition. This is no exagger-
alton. In quickness, in accuracy, and
even in grasp, there is perfection Of SEN
sitive capacity in the metal, with which
the organic instrument cannot compare.
We speak of the proverbial "quickness of
thought" but the telephone thinks
quicker than the nervous mechanism.
Let word be pronounced for person to
repeat, and the telephone will hear and
speak it. hundred miles away in the
tenth part of the time that the listener
would need to utter it. Give a man
series Of half dozen notes to repeat, and
he cannot do it accurately to save his life;
but the iron plate takes them up, trans
mits them to another plate hundreds of
miles off, which sings them forth instan-
taneously with absolute precision. The
human machine can hear, and reproduce
in its poor way, only single series of
notes, while the iron ear Of the telephone
will take up whole cords and trains of
music, and, sending them by lightning
through the wire, its iron tongue will
emit them in perfect relations of harmony.
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