The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-08-04

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But teaching i%nterfered with his in
venting, and he soon gave up all but
two pupils. One of these was Mabel
Hubbard, Of a wealthy family. She
had lost her hearing and speech in an
attack of scarlet fever while a baby.
It was she who later became Bells
wife.
Bell spent the following three a
in night work in a cellar in Salem,
Mass. His money-needs were met by
Gardiner G. Hubbard. his future
father-in-law, and Thomas Sanders,
the owner of the cellar. As he worked
he began TO see the possibility of con-
veying speech over an electrically
charged wire-the telephone. He
used a dead mans ear for a transmit
ter.
"If | can make a deaf mute talk"
Bell had declared. 81 can make iron
talk"
His first success came while testing
his instruments in his new quarters
in Boston. Thomas A. Watson, Bells
assistant. had struck a clock spring
at n end of the wire, and Bell was
electrified to hear the sound in an
other room. For forty weeks the in
strument struggled, as it were, for hui
mar speech. Then on March 10, 1876,
Watson became almost insane with
joy when he heard over the wire
Bells voice saying:
Mr.. Watson, come here, | want
you"
On his goth birthday, Bell received
his patent. 1t was at the Centennial
Exposition held at Philadelphia, two
months later, where men of science
the world over who had come to eN-
anime and study the numerous inven-
lions exhibited. saw Prof. Bell give
a practical demonstration of the trans
mission of the human voice by cleo
tricity.
As for Bell himself, he had not
planned to attend the Centennial at
all. He was poor and he had reorgan-
lied his classes in vocal speech. To
ward the end of June he went to the
station to see Miss Hubbard off for
Philadelphia. There had been some
talk of his going. but he had put it
quietly aside. She believed he was
going: when they reached the station
she pleaded with him and was relus-
ed. AS he put her aboard the train
and it moved out, leaving him on the
platform. she burst out crying. Bell
dashed after her and sprang ABOARD
the train, without baggage, ticket or
any other triles.
The next Sunday afternoon Bell was
promised an inspection OF ms hVen'
ton by the judges of exhibits. II was
a hot day and the judges had seen a
great deal. Some Of them were lot
going home; one jeered, and there was
a general boredom. Then there ap,
peared the blonde bearded Emperor Oh
Brazil. with outstretched hands. he
had heard some of Bells lectures IN
Boston; the deaf-mute work appeal
ed to him. His greeting made a SUIT
Bell made ready for his
ton. A wire had been strung tIe
length of the room. Bell took the
transmitter; Dom Pedro placed the
received to his ear. He started up
amazed.
"My God-it talks
Afterward Lord Kelvin-plain VIII
liam Thompson then-took up the re
ceiver. He was the engineer OF the
first Atlantic cable.
He nodded his head solomnly as he
got up. .l,
at does speak, he said emphatical-
ly. at is the most wonderful thing
| have seen in America"
The Judges took turns talking and
listening until 10 that night. Next
morning the telephone was brought TO
the judges pavilion. 1t was mobbed
by scientists the remainder of the
summer.
The DISTINGUISHED inventor was the
recipient of many honors in this
country and abroad. The French
government, ever quick to recognize
science, conferred on him the decora.
ton of the Legion of Honor, the
French Academy bestowed on him its
valuable Volta prize of 10000 francs
the Society of Arts in London in 1907
gave him it's Albert medal and the
University of Wurzburg. Bavaria
made him a Phi. d.
One of the curious things about
the invention of the telephone is thai
Bell knew almost nothing about cleo
tricity when he started. He knew
great deal about acoustics, though
and the formation of the human or
gans of speech and hearing. Bell was
called to Washington once when he
was in the slough of dependency anC
took the opportunity to call on Prof
Joseph Henry, who knew as mucl
about electricity and the telegraph
as any man then alive. Henry tolC
him he had the germ of a great in
vention.
But" said Bell, 81 have not got
the electrical knowledge that is ne
~cessary?"
Get it," said Henry.
Bell did get some of it-enOugh.
Had | known more about electri
city and less about sound he said
81 would never have invented the
telephone.
While DIR. Bell will be best remem
bered as the inventor of the tele
phone, a claim that has been sustain
ed through many legal contests, he
also became noted for other inven
tions. He was joint inventor of the
g~raphaphone with Summer fainter
He invented an ingenius method o
TYPOGRAPHY a ~photophone, and an in
duction balance. He invented a tele
phone probe which he used to locate
the bullet that killed President Gar