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that he might bequeath to the telephone an engineering corps of loyal merest shred of rust. As if these troubles were not enough, there were that the number of wires had swollen from hundreds to thousands, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company became the University of the along West Street, New York--every pole a towering Norway pine, with its and efficient men. necessity of taking down the wires in the city streets and putting them overhead method had been outgrown. Some streets in the larger cities had Spencer, the philosopher. And in 1890, he gathered around him a winnowed They had done this, not because it was cheap, but because it was the as they had escaped from the clamor of the mysterious noises, was the top ninety feet above the roadway, and carrying thirty cross-arms and sixty--seventy--eighty. Finally the highest of all pole lines was built Telephone. He was himself a student by disposition, with a special taste three hundred wires. group of college graduates--he has sixty of them on his staff to-day--so wires. Many a wire, in less than two or three years, was withered to the underground. At first, they had strung the wires on poles and roof-tops. only possible way, so far as any one knew in that kindergarten period. become black with wires. Poles had risen to fifty feet in height, then for the writings of Faraday, the forerunner; Tyndall, the expounder; and From poles the wires soon overflowed to housetops, until in New York A telephone wire required the daintiest of handling. To bury it was to The next problem that faced the young men of the telephone, as soon alone they had overspread eleven thousand roofs. These roofs had to be smother it, to make it dull or perhaps entirely useless. But now kept in repair, and their chimneys were the deadly enemies of the iron

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