Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-11

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These were me "olls o'
Dr.AIcXaudcr Graham Bell
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aphone and his recent experiments ih
Tho neld Of aerial navigation and this
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fa'Fo up H'A '"N' q" guy
'ments ana Inventions Wnlch Io'ih mo
life work. lie never goes 90 bed until
mar ,r MIA uap1i slespiup hours
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devoted 10 social ana buslucss engage
ments, ana me nlshl alone 10 Ieaulus
and work.
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These have been the habits Of a me-
time, ana thoy are excellent ones 81 Dr.
Bells health may be considered test
lie Is now 81 years OF age and is I'M
his physical and intellectual prime TAN
and well formed, with a great head ia'-
tened by a strong neck 10 broad, full
shoulders he is one OF the finest iook-
nse u.s. mv,' a. "nu y, AM r,e ,lUa tbirgs
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FIRST patented In 1876. Since then he has
made many other important Inventions
and has been granted the highest nom
ors by the chief scientific societies OF
Europe Including the Volta prize OF
10000 francs. given by the Freuch gov
eminent 10 the few whose Inventions
are deemed OF the greatest good 10 hu-
mainly IL takes Imagination to M
vent, and Or Bell has this faculty TO a
remarkable degree. His vision, based
upon his great scientific knowledge, Is
wider than that OF tie ordinary think
or and his creative mind is always
searching out and suggesting new
things. This was evident throughout
our conversation, of which ! can repeat
only a part.
The talk covered a wide range, now
personal now scientific, and now al
most prophetic as TO the possibilities or
the future. II jumped from Japan TO
Nova Scotia and from. Washington to
London from the use OF a dead mans
ear intelephonic experiments to orator
zeal and musical exhibitions over the
telephone and grdphaphone; and from
electricity 10 hellum and radium and
the navigation OF the air
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In our conversation about electricity
] asked DR. Bell whether his scientific
knowledge Of that force had not aided
him In the invention OF the telephone
mot az an" he replied when ] be-
gan my experiments upon the telephone
] had no scientific knowledge OF oleC-
triclty / knew practically nothing
about II; and had It been otherwise
could never have made the discoveries
which eliminated in my success
don't believe any electrician could have
invented the telephone"
WHY not9" I asked.
Because the elements which we now
think essential to the telephone trans
mission Of sound are such that the cleo
.trican OF that day would not have be-
lieved In their practical application. The
ideas which brought forth the telephone
would not have come to mo. and had
they done 40 would have az once dis.
carded them as foolish and impracti.
cal"
But did not electricity have much t.
do with the FIRST telephoneg
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that were used In the first instrument