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the impulsive Bell had thrust them into his hands as a gift. At the next miners. The price, too, created a general outcry. Floods of toy vied with each other in inventing methods of pooh-poohing Bell and than a toy," said the Saturday Review; "it amazes ignorant people for a trade in telephones, and failed. of speaking-trumpet," said a third. No British editor could at first against the European inertia and organized the International and "What will become of the privacy of life?" asked another London editor. Oriental Telephone Companies, which came to nothing of any importance. telephone is scarcely used at all in London, and is unknown in the other public, and often by open hostility. "The telephone is little better "What will become of the sanctity of the domestic hearth?" Writers The first man of consequence to befriend the telephone was Lord Kelvin, although the Government was charging sixty dollars a year for the use of English cities." moment, but it is inferior to the well-established system of air-tubes." electrical speaking-tube," said another. "It is a complicated form its printing-telegraphs, people protested loudly against paying half his invention. "It is ridiculously simple," said one. "It is only an telephones were being sold on the streets at a shilling apiece; and These able men found their plans thwarted by the indifference of the then an untitled young scientist. He had seen the original telephones at conceive of any use for the telephone, except for divers and coal the Centennial in Philadelphia, and was so fascinated with them that as much for telephones. As late as 1882, Herbert Spencer writes: "The Western Electric, went to France and England to establish an export In the same year even Enos M. Barton, the sagacious founder of the