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