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THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE a clock-spring reed, a magnet, and a wire. It was a most absurd toy in Square. It was a very hot afternoon in June, but the young professor had that stood in one of the narrow streets of Boston, not far from Scollay and it had constantly baffled him, until, on this hot afternoon in June, professor of elocution was desperately busy in a noisy machine-shop it appears, and the two were connected by an electric wire. Watson had snapped the reed on one of the machines and the professor had heard from For an instant he was stunned. He had been expecting just such a sound CHAPTER I. THE BIRTH OF THE TELEPHONE VIII THE TELEPHONE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES 1875, he heard an almost inaudible sound--a faint TWANG--come from the of surprise. His eyes blazed with delight, and he sprang in a passion of assisting him. in the making of a nondescript machine, a sort of crude harmonica with eagerness to an adjoining room in which stood a young mechanic who was forgotten the heat and the grime of the workshop. He was wholly absorbed for several months, but it came so suddenly as to give him the sensation machine itself. IX THE FUTURE OF THE TELEPHONE professor. There was one of the odd-looking machines in each room, so "Snap that reed again, Watson," cried the apparently irrational young appearance. It was unlike any other thing that had ever been made in any In that somewhat distant year 1875, when the telegraph and the Atlantic country. The young professor had been toiling over it for three years cable were the most wonderful things in the world, a tall young VII THE TELEPHONE AND NATIONAL EFFICIENCY