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clothes-lines. Each short little wire stood by itself, with one instrument at each end. There were no operators, switchboards, or exchanges. But there had now come a time when more than two persons would echo the tramp of a fly that walked across a table, or repeat in out a plan whereby it could be carried out. Here was the new problem, mystery and "the powers of the air"; they had not only to protect their SYSTEM OF ANY SORT WHATEVER. And that was not all. These young men had not only to battle against them could be joined at a moment's notice. then, and is yet, the most sensitive instrument that has ever been put They had to educate Bell's Genie of the Wire so that he would not only the telephone; and while Bell himself had foreseen it, he had not worked wanted to be in the same conversational group. This was a larger use of and a most stupendous one--how to link together three telephones, or to make this system so simple and fool-proof that every one--every one any account, no cables of any value, no wires that were in any sense except the deaf and dumb--could use it without any previous experience. tiny electric messenger, and to create a system of wire highways along which he could run up and down safely; they had to do more. They had young men received, and this was all. There were no switchboards of three hundred, or three thousand, or three million, so that any two of of the telephone that we call the receiver. This was practically the adequate, no theory of tests or signals, no exchanges, NO TELEPHONE New Orleans the prattle of a child in New York. This was what the to general use in any country. It opened up a new world of sound. It As for Bell's first telephone lines, they were as simple as sum total of Bell's invention, and remains to-day as he made it. It was

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