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the utmost amazement. "It says--`The cat and the fiddle,'" he gasped, He hammered the truth home that the telephone was "one of the most and declared: instrument with a grin of incredulity, and thinking the whole exhibition Lord Kelvin exhibited these. He did more. He became the champion of the telephone. He staked his reputation upon it. He told the story of the interesting inventions that has ever been made in the history of the idea--THE WHOLLY ORIGINAL AND NOVEL IDEA--of giving continuity to from Bell's telephone as a series of hand-claps are different from the "The things that were called telephones before Bell were as different meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, what Bell had done was a humorous trifle. But Lord Kelvin persisted. At a public test there was one noted professor who still stood in the mine. He stood side by side with Bell at a public meeting in Glasgow, ranks of the doubters. He was asked to send a message. He went to the One by one the scientists were forced to take the telephone seriously. into two camps. Some of them said the telephone was impossible, while Then he listened for an answer. The look on his face changed to one of The scientists and electrical experts were, for the most part, split up he had not been deceived. "All this my own ears heard," he said, "spoken human voice. They were in fact electrical claps; while Bell conceived a joke, shouted into the mouthpiece: "Hi diddle diddle--follow up that." tests made at the Centennial, and assured the sceptical scientists that to me with unmistakable distinctness by this circular disc of iron." the shocks, so as to perfectly reproduce the human voice." others said that "nothing could be simpler." Almost all were agreed that science." He gave a demonstration with one end of the wire in a coal

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