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Show TALES OF THE TELEPHONE Its Exploitation In England Seemed Impossible Until Queen Victoria Became Interested. The I'nlted States has eight tele phones for every hundred of poputn Hon, while no other country has half as many. Following the establish-ment establish-ment on a solid hauls of the American telephone system work for European exploitation was early begun. The results re-sults were hardly encouraging Five-eighths of the Ilrltlsh rights were purchased for $.'i00 by a Providence Provi-dence man, Bays the National Maga-tine. Maga-tine. After working In Ixmdon four months he could not find any one who would put a shilling In the telephone An English review said of It: "The telephone Is little better than a toy. It amuses the English, but Is Inferior to the well established system of air tubes." The victory was won at Inst by Kate Field, wbo aang "Kathleen Ma-vourneen" Ma-vourneen" over the telephone to Queen Victoria. The queen was delighted, de-lighted, asked Dell If she might buy two telephones, and It waa not long before all England waa Interested. An exchange with ten wires was opened In London, and In April, 1879, Theodore Theo-dore Vail sent an order to the factory In Dostoo In bis terse, characteristic way: "Please make 100 band telephones tele-phones for export trade aa early as possible." |