The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
= The Birth Of the Telephone
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~ tae 'e .ss most wonderful things
Ill were e, 'I = tall young professor 'i
BE Tor.a i'd. desperately busy j" d
sea'a . Wa, that stood IN one
as na saoIIav Square. 1t was a very
j b91l o' IN June, but the young
stssof na "a the the workshop. He was
b g1le u .had in the making OF a
vi issctlP' WITH a cIocE-spring reed,
snonl'a va wire. 1t was Il most
aari Toy :.,s lr thing l5 that had ever been
S'lF o, nr country. The young Pro !
u p ~. aI' BEEN toiling over it nc, I2E f.
v'f ma and it had constantly BAT, /
ss ys''s sn ill on this hot afternoon
h hnl' w., S-5 he heard an almost IN ,
lans' lo. faint twang, come .
as's (. ,'r machine itself. ,.,, II.
~ a. arnecting just such SOUND .
, peer months, but it came .;,.> SUD- d
s' !. 10 give him the sensation ! }:.h OF
|! q. = !. His eyes blazed with delight
qiis' ran, ,r,o in a passion Of eager
h. !, s p adjoining room in which
= " a. mechanic who was assist
hn, that reed again, Watson,
sp I. snparently irrational young
y '... d. There was one of the odd-
s pc. machines in each room, so II
and the two were connected
Ea', sis s wire. Watson had snap
- reed on one Of the machines
~. y. nrofessor had heard from the
=. :, m.fbipe exactly the same sound
-. ~ more than the gentle twang
va .,a ! but it was the first
n The history of the world that
..n =, sound had been earned
y. wire. reproduced perfectly at
!. thor and. and heard by an expert
aousties. r was
= ~ s,,t tinv cry of the newborn tele-
-. .ttered in the changing din OF a
.,,si,esbop and happily heard by a
:. .- rba.s ear had been trained to rec
= -, h. strange voice of the little
. T.. There, amidst flying belts
:, i,,,ipg wheels. the baby telephone
= :. harm. as feeble and helpless as any
n, babv and "with no language
h.seT." -
n. n-afessorinventor, who had thus
,s,7., The tiny founding Of science,
=. vounr Seottish-American. His
,,r, MN known as widely as the tele-
,sa,s asslf was Alexander Graham
IN "a was teacher of acoustics
,,a Agdent Of electricity, possibly
n esr nan in his generation who
va, Aha 10 focus a knowledge OF both
sbs.s pai the problem Of the tele-
ri,s n g.her men that exceeding iy
lint gali would have been as inaudI-
alence itself; but to Bell it was
D, ,ilaisr-tlap. 1t was dream come !,
m |. was an impossible thing which
Mna fash become so easy that he
ai scarcely believe it. Here, with
e The use Of battery with no more
dstre current than that made by a
eze Of magnets. all the waves OF a
ssli had been carried along a wire
nd changed back to sound at the far,
tir end. It was absurd. Il was IN
Geibe It was something which
tthef wire nor electricity had beer
Emyn 70 Do before. But it was true
NJ discovery has ever been less ac
giiEtal It was the last link Of a long
tiir of discoveries. It was the result
&s persistent and deliberate search
aieslY for half a year or longer, rs
tll known the correct theory Of the
iselhone; but he Lad not realized that
b teeble undulatCTy current general
1hy magnet was strong enough fo1
la tFansmission of speech. He ha'
ben taught to undervalue the iDcredi
te efficiency Of electricity.
Not only was Bell himself a teache
ftia laws Of speech, so highly skillet
a'' be was an instructor in Boston
lrTefsty His father. too. his twl
aaasTs. his uncle, and his grandfathe
~ taught the laws of speech in tn
aTefsities Of Edinburgh, Dublin, am
Aiah For three generations th
sas bad been professors of the scienc
alsing. They had even helped t
rate that science by several inven
aS The first Of them, Aievande
~ had invented a system for tn
hefl0n Of stammering and simiIa
+e''s Of speech. The second. Alex
a Melville Bell, was the dean o
a.sa eoeutionists, man of greatly
.aa and most impressive facility o
'''o'R He was the author of a doze
-4,aooSs On the art Of speaking coz
.' and also of a most ingeniou
'saasuage which he called ''Visjbl
Every letter in the alphaba
u = lahguage represented a cer-ai
"a Of the lips and tongue: 50 tha
method was provided for +hoz
WISHED 10 learn foreign language
-. sPeah their own language NOR
y And the third of thc-
IMPROVING Bells. the inventor O.
~, 'Paone' inherited fine nacnlia
Il ,.. d his fathers. both invertfv
sas.1 'lf-eai. to such q degree -ha
aY ! ne had constructed an ar-rf -,
!, s,o,n gntta-pereba ana india mi
in' when enlivena9 bv n hla.
etssr, Ton a han1-benows. w5aI
ass,. Pronounce several words IN .
l1man manner
... ,9,rd Bell, the only one Of -n
tsa5le family who concerns r.
9ei,5.e was young man. barely I'VE