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in the walls at the left were perhaps fifty
models Of telephones, and among them the
first one that Mr.. Bell ever made. 1t con-
sisted Of two telephones, as it were, and
was exceedingly clumsy in appearance
Beyond this were scores of cylinders used
In the experiments upon the graphophone,
little bottles Of silenium, containing, Mr..
Bell told me. the largest quantity Of this
almost invaluable material in existence in
the world today, and which he used in his
experiments of telephoning without wires
were many scientific instruments, inven-
tons illustrating new and yet unexplained
theories as to the property of matter orig
mated by Mr.. Bell, and, in short, so many
different things that the mere mention of
them would fill a page of this newspaper.
Telephone Bells First Invention.
AS We looked at the original telephone, I
asked Mr.. Bell If he could remember the
time when he first realized that he had in
ventive power, and If he had a model of
the very first invention he had ever made.
las to the first question I can't answer,
but here is a part of what suppose to be
my first invention" replied Mr.. Bell, as he
took down from a hook a kind of a cross
between rat trap and a human jaw made
IN the shape of a mouth of what appeared
to be shoemaker's wax and rubber. or soft
leather. 1t had rubber lips. which opened
and shut, and the jaws were hinged like
those of man. This" continued Mr.
Bell, 'is my first attempt at a speaking
machine. When I was a little boy my
father took myself and brothers to see an
automaton which uttered some words, and
when we came back he offered a prize to
the one of us who could invent a machine
that could speak. 1 made the instrument
OF which this is part, and succeeded in
making 1t say some words. We We're liv-
ing in Edinburgh at the time, in one of
tfose Scotch flats in which each family
has a floor with a common hall When /
had completed the machine we took it out
into the hall one day and made it cry
Mamma" 1t made a noise much like that
of baby, and the other families in the fiat
ran out and asked where the baby was
that was crying. 1 remember this delight
ed us very much.
Teaching School ut $50 a Year.
"Your attention was turned very early to
matters connected with speech and speech
transmission, was it not?'
Eyes; my father was noted as having con-
siderable knowledge uf matters connected
with elocution. He knew all about the
physiological production of sound, and
was brought up, as 1t We're, in an atmos-
phere of sound-invest;gation. ] was edu-
Gated at the High School in Edinburgh,
and spent a year at the university there,
but my attention was early attracted to
evolutionary studies, ana earned my Hrs
money as a teacher. l went out to teach
when l was in my teens, and received al
first flO, or $JO, year ana my poalu.
Later on got f70. or $3.50. year as teacher
of elocution and music. ms was pelor s !
was twenty, and at that tune deNoteu
great deal OF attention 10 music; lseu ~
COMPOSE and one of my early dreams was
that / might become. one OF the srea, coH-
posers of the world.
How about your musical compositions
Mr.. Bell! were they Oh redl Naise ,
.! don't know ABOUT that, was he, ,bsv
with laugh. suppose MOI, W. -
seemed OF great ValGe 10 HE a' 'iia' 'ie'
Great Scientific Discovery.
=, . -o,,r uorL in music helped
suppose ..,o. .f .ha to,e-
you toward the ih'enlion VI 'e
phone?"
eft NAV have done So" was the reply,
&c. T -,,orLad for long time attempting
Us ,.io.I sounas When was
10 transmit iiiusieai eo"nN' -,
about sixteen L discovered what was " lie
a wonderful physiological fact, and that
was that each of the vowel sounds has
- ,>i.Sh which is formed by the
e'' 49, - ,ha o.,ity in the
cnahse III INC SIC VI " -.
mouth IN ,.,aA nnonn as the vocal organs.
1 found that 1 could produce a similar
pitch in the taps upon a pehcii iaiu as"iis.
my lips and tapped wniie chanslns l.e
cavity OF my NOUN, as yoi IN W fsct NAV a
tupa in this way, You can do Inc same
with a pencil laid upon your throat, but
here the sounds are reversed l was much
excited by TINS discovery, anu VIII tr,s;s .ie
la Ii l.s Ens,;sh onthoritv on nhoneties
nd mathematics- and received a request
70 call mon him when 1 came to London.
7 did 50 and when l met him he told me
that nv discovery had been made only a
bort tiyne before nv HelmhoItz the famous
Earm,n scientist who died last wear. and
that he had written a book on the subject
rhis Was in German. which I could not
Iii raad sir Alexander Ellis told me
ahar+ ~ bowever and gave me to under
800 th.t hv means of Vibrating metal. a
.',a.i,,, fork nsrbsns and electricity. Helm
soIta "a r.prodnced sounds / understood
~. su' ti,, ~ he ha5 been able to trans
lioui IN, mn sn',ndS bw aIactricitv In this 7
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