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