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Herbert Newton Casson. The History of the Telephone
The History of the Telephone
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE
CHAPTER I. THE BIRTH OF THE TELEPHONE
CHAPTER II. THE BUILDING OF THE BUSINESS
CHAPTER III. THE HOLDING OF THE BUSINESS
CHAPTER IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART
CHAPTER V. THE EXPANSION OF THE BUSINESS
CHAPTER VI. NOTABLE USERS OF THE TELEPHONE
CHAPTER VII. THE TELEPHONE AND NATIONAL EFFICIENCY
CHAPTER VIII. THE TELEPHONE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
CHAPTER IX. THE FUTURE OF THE TELEPHONE
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Herbert Newton Casson
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Next came to the receiver the oldest scientist in the group, the venerable Joseph Henry, whose encouragement to Bell had been so timely. He stopped to listen, and, as one of the bystanders afterwards said, no one could forget the look of awe that came into his face as he heard that iron disc talking with a human voice. "This," said he, "comes nearer to overthrowing the doctrine of the conservation of energy than anything I ever saw."
Then came Sir William Thomson, latterly known as Lord Kelvin. It was fitting that he should be there, for he was the foremost electrical scientist at that time in the world, and had been the engineer of the first Atlantic Cable. He listened and learned what even he had not known before, that a solid metallic body could take up from the air all the countless varieties of vibrations produced by speech, and that these vibrations could be carried along a wire and reproduced exactly by a second metallic body. He nodded his head solemnly as he rose from the receiver. "It DOES speak," he said emphatically. "It is the most wonderful thing I have seen in America."
