Show CLAIMS THE FIRST TELEPHONE chicago man says say the perfected instrument ment in 1875 chicago I 1 Is claimed its aa the birthplace ot of the telephone the instrument fla was wall the invention ot of henry C strong I a journeyman printer and a veteran ot of the civil war who had bad served in tho the ninety third illinois before tho the war he had bad learned heleg raily in new york city it nas mas durin jill the war nar that the possibility ot of using a closed circuit on a morse in and transmitting sounds of the tinman human voice by it occurred to hini him As early as 1872 he interested the be chaplain ct cf the regiment rev C al earnes barnes in hla his theory in 1873 1876 ho he set up the instrument which w lich he called the goodyear single bedl co il telegraph sounder in the rooms ot of the howser school ot of telegraphy to the al ot of those present at the experiment strong succeeded in securing communication u alil a station many miles away e |