Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-09-26


ITS HISTORY AND fRA'ri'AL "oEAlN"'
The telephone dates back but three years
for if w,s only so recently that the first
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and yet to-day, 50 great and obvious are its
advantages and utilities. not less than one
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the country. Nearly all the larger '''ieS
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i,vcntion and use marks an cnocb which is
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look back upon the establishment oi the fail-
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fessor Alexander Graham Bell, formerly OF
Salem Mas The specification forming
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The whole glst OF Professor Bells claims IS
First, system of tclcgraphy in which the
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second the combination oi permanent
magnet or other body capable Of inductive
action with a closed circuit. s. that the
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lhe experiments proving entlrelS successiuI
Il company under the name OF the beii leieI
phone company WAS At once orSahlZeu ana
htgan To supply Inc instruments 10 the pun
he. HE establishment "l th' American
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There are thirty or forty different styles of
instruments now in use, hut there is really
only one kind in principle or rather two
the cma.neto-tclephonc and the carbon tele- |
phone The former is used either as a trans
mittcr or receiver, and the latter only as a !
transmittcr. The most common style is /
the Bell telephone proper. This instrument /
is about eight inches long, the magnet runs |
nearly the entire length. and only one pole is .
used This telephone like most of the others, .
is used as a receiver in connection with the .
Edison carbon tclephonc or the Blake trans .
mittcr. Other telephones. not in vcrv gencr-
al use are the Crown. the Pony Crown,
the Double Crown and the Duplex !
None of the companies sell any of .
their Instruments. renting them, only, |
AT fixed sum per month or year \ good .
telephone can, however, be made for less .
than one dollar although an hundred could /
bc expended in the manufacture of single .
one II has, perhaps, been noticed that .
there are several firms throughout the |
country who advertise what they call /
telephones for one, two or three dollars.
In many eases the articles are genu
inc Bell instruments; hut they come in
pieces, for the patent will not allow their
manufacture hy unauthorized persons. Onc