Show The Telephone Predicted In tho works of Robert Hooko published in ljH is tho following forecast of the telephone tele-phone And as glasses have highly promoted our seeing so tis not improbable but that there may bo found many mechanical inventors to improve our senses of hearing smelling tasting tast-ing and touching Tis not impossible hear a whisper a furlongs distance it haYing been already done and perhaps the nature of the thing would not make it more impossible though that furlong should be ten times multiplied mul-tiplied And though some famous authors have affirmed it impossible to hear through the thinnest plate of Muscovy glass yet I know a way by which it is easy enough to hear one speak through a wall a yard thick It has not yet been thouroughly examined how far octocousticons may be improved nor what other ways there may be of quickening quick-ening our hearing or conveying sound through other bodies than the air for that is not the only medium I can assure the reader that I have by the help of a distended wire propagated the sound to a considerable dia tance in an instant or with as seemingly quick n motion as that of light at least incomparably in-comparably swifter than that which at the same time was propagated through the air and this not only in a straight line or direct but ono bended in many angles |