| Show The Invention Invention Of The Telephone And Its Phenomenal Growth f Alexander G Graham Bell ell the inventor tor ter of the telephone was born on March larch 3 1847 in Edenburgh Scot Scot- Scotland Scotland land He lie was as given Riven ven a fine education at at Edenburgh and nd Ills his father Alexander 1 M Bell and his grandfather Al Alexander xander Bell BeIl were a listin profession sion rion in their wa way way His father work work- worked worked ed out a n system of s symbols for the teaching of correct speaking This system was called Visible Speech and was later found f und useful in teach teach- teaching teach ins ing n the deaf Professor Professor Bell had two oth other r sons but they were both carried off by b an attack at k of sickness which was also threatening the life of Alex Graham Therefore in inthe the year 1870 the father and family left all md aid moved moed to America trusting the brac- brac brac bracing bracing ing climate to restore r store his sons health They settled near ne r Bransford Ontario Soon after establishing himself in in America Prof Bell was requested to come to Boston to introduce his system system system tem of Visible Speech in the Clark Clarl School for the Deaf but instead of going himself he ne sent his son Graham Gra- Gra Gra Graham ham where he lie soon established him him- himself himself himself self as instructor in elocution and in inthe inthe inthe the education of the deaf Even Eyen at the a age e of eleven cleven Alex Graham Bell had h d shown his ability along the inventive lines Jines becoming g interested in electricity and with the th e telegraphic art One of his firs first t adaptations was with the graph graph raph an instrument for graphically tracing the shape shap of sound waves hoping therewith to find a way to t o teach the deaf leaf to speak Another r of his experiments was with a multiple e h harmonic telegraph h and instrument t with which he expected to send a half hat f dozen messages over a single wire nt a athe t the same time without 6 with each other It was was while experimenting experimenting experimenting with this instrument that he h e conceived the idea of transmitting the human voice over the telegraph h wires and told and toM told his associate Thos A AWatson AWatson Watson If I could make a current of o f electricity vary ary i in intensity precisely precise y as the air varies in density during the th e production of sound I I should be able abl e to tr transmit speech telegraphically It was on the afternoon of June 2 1875 while conducting his experiment ti with the multiple harmonic telegraph h hn that he discovered how to produce a an anund n und atory current and I Ie e ure th e transmission of the human v voice ice ove ovea overa r a wire but it was not until March 1 1 10 0 1876 that he brought the instrument to such a state that entire sentences sentence s could be clearly heard over it Thus Thu on this date and at 5 I Exter Place Boston some bit of history was made mad e while not so noble at the first e that was sent over the he Telegraph wire e What has God wrought rought yet jus jusas just justas t as as that some some thing significant r Leant cant had Thus th the e words spoken by Mr Bell and hear hearby hearl by y Mr Watson Mr Watson please pleas C come here I want you Thus the th spoken world was transmitted fro from n lip to ear car over the th i t new wire wa way Y The idea of Mr 11 Belt Bel was to produce an ane a n e electrical ec wave jus just as s we produce ce a anair 11 n air all Wave wave but the air all wave will not no f carry sound so far or so fast as elect electricity electricity ri city so by speaking into an instrument instrument u ment meat t thab 1 would produce an electrical electric al wave and with it c connected to another er instrument that would receive the th e same electrical wave wave and cause the t h e to give put the same den den- density de den density n sity o 0 impression gas fas as that transmit transmit- transmitted transmitted ted the human yoke voice could be heard hear d at considerable distance nce just as me mes mes- messages messages s sages arc are sent over the telegraph h wires Considerable was done by Mr Bell and Mr Wats Watson on during the summer of 1876 and the ti instrument was brought to such a a state of perfection that they were we re now ready to put it to an outdoor test to it So on Oct 9 the they obtained s- s from the Walworth l g Co 0 to connect their instruments to this Company's private wire that ran r a n between Boston and Cambridge a dis- dis distance di tance of about two miles The even even- evening eve evening n- n ing when all was ready their testing began and Bell at Boston to to Watson and Watson Waton Watson at Cambridge ge back to Bell Belland and thus the first fir st long ong distance telephone message be- be began b be e- e flan gan The next morning their convers conversa conversation tion was published in parallel columns colum ns in the Advertiser a Boston paper It as was in April 1877 that the first tele- tele telephone tele telephone tel e- e phone line was put into operation o n between Mr Williams office and h his is home at Somerville Somer and this eve rat was a headliner ip iii in the next mornings mornin gs paver paper Prof Bells Bell's ne nc trouble was to fin fin- finance fin finance 11 n- n ance ante the invent n which is usually usual lY the big problem ti v ith any new basin business ese To acquire the needed capital Prof Pr of Bell assisted by Mr Watson put on ona ona a number of lee Ice ures with a char charge e for admission tc to ling of his wonder wonder- wonderful wonderful ful wonderful and us discovery and anel giving iving ts of its possibilities These lectures c an intense and widespread into inte st which has nt not been realized b by any ny other invention The first use f the telephone was to lease them ii i pairs firms connecting wit with residents or friends and ass assi leasing a pair t to be able to ta to k to each other The next diff dill culty cully after alter the tele tele- telephone telephone telephone phone was led was for the call call call ing calling party to si sinal sij nal the party at the theother theother th other telephone as at that time the tho th telephone was riot n t with a n bell beU bellas as at present Thus for the calling party to the attention of the th party desired h hu he would tap on the th with a lead pencil and if the party was near enough to hear the noise noise he soon had his lar party tu but bu if he happened tt t tp be away some dis dis- dis disi fiance I i the tapping had ad to be repeated for I for an time lIme The mode of s signalling was not ot sat satisfactory y as thel the thc constant constant tapping on the soon ruined it 1 Watson W atson was cal called ed in to improve e thIs mode of 01 signalling i and he invented a little button at the side of the transmitter trans trans- transmitter mitter mittel which when when thumped would woul operate a little hammer that struck the side of the trie and thus signal ignal s the party patty At this mode of caIlin calling the part palt party soon proved too slow and very ery annoying Mr l Watson Matson in- in invented in invented in- in invented vented a buz buzz er that proved much more satisfactory but it w was s Mr Watsons Watson's good fortune to still im- im improve Im- Im im improve prove pro on his buzzer by replacing it with witha a magneto electric call bell very much after the present bell equip equip- equip equip- equipment equipment equipment ment 1 cate With just being able to communicate communicate cate with on one telephone as at the he time lime Bell leased leased his tits first sets of in- in instruments in instruments proved to be very ery unsatisfactory unsatisfactory factor factory and not n t very ery so i in May htay M y 1877 a crud crude sWItch sWItchboard switchboard switchboard board was installed at the office of a aMr aMr aMr Mr Holmen jn n Boston which con con- connected con con- connected connected 5 banks It served as a tele tele- telephone telephone telephone phone system Ky oy day and as a burglar alarm by nigHt The first commer commer- commercial commer- commer commercial c cial ial switch bo board rd was installed at N New w Haven Conn with eight sU sub subscribers sub sub- subscribers scribers Later small switch boards were installed at Conn Now New York and Philadelphia and other large cities After the cities had been served very successfully by means of the switch board it was thought if cities could have coI- coI corn corn- com communications of long dIs- dIs dIstance dis distance tance tango lines ines and thus step by step the whole country has been brought into one intercommunicating system As the busin business ss grew many lems problems had to b be over oyer come such as the replacing of f the cumbersome pole lines along the city streets with over oer head cables replacing the man man- manual man man- manual ual switch boar boards s with the multiple switch boards and the improvement of toll lines so as t tomake to make the transmission transmission transmission sion to distant cities possible I I The radio telephone was also per per- pcr perfected about this time when messages at Arlington Va were I distinctly Islands heard on the Hawaiian Is- Is Is lands ands and in Paris France The tele- tele tele tele- telephone telephone phone amplifiers has lids also been made a part of the radi radio set anda and addresses a dresses are now broadcast d to all parts of l I the thousands world orld and heard by tens of thou sands of people This part of the tele- tele tele role best serves serves from ship to snare r and in bro broadcasting general news but news but not net private messages business The rate making part of the busi- busi considerable ness Hess has not been m without et without con con con trouble To lo give a good d grade of service att at atta at a nominal prig price e and anda a fair fail return on the investment to t o the stockholder ha hJ had ever been the th e TheoN policy of the Company and Mr 11 Theo N Vail was early c called into the or- or or organization and directed this part of the business until today day we are ing ing the best grade of Iff of telephone ser ser- vice ice vice service tha that t is is furnished in any part of o the world and at th t lowest rate to t u the subscriber r I I The Bell system has nas ids produced a an n automatic switch board boa d which works work m st s satisfactorily an and is being inter inter- inter in in a number o of places to vide for growth 01 out or h Worn subscriber equipment Instead ad of the sub sub- scriber giving the number wanted i tc 10 A an dials W operator at the witch board boa he h e base it by means o OI the thc dialon dial on the th e base the of the telephone instrument and automatic switch board apparatus performing mechanically what the operator does at t the e manual board lOut i Out of this beginning 1876 with Bell as Bell Bellas Bel in promoter as tile the inventor or and and Watson ns is engineer and has grown this magnificent o g organization of oC employees giving service to ors ers financed by stockholders LOCAL HISTORY I Th The telephone made ma e its first an- an ap- ap appearance in Davis county in the year 1882 1582 or 1883 when toll lines were built through here 19 give ive Salt Lake City and Ogden first telephone connections and shortly after this time toll stations st w were re established in several of the balling mercantile stores of the county three These toll station station and the first resident phones in the homes of Richard Duerden Bountiful John Jahn R Barnes Ka and Chas Clias E Pearson Bountiful served the people of S 0 I Davis county co ty with telephone service for about 2 years when our ou present P 1 exchanges changes were established The Kaysville first y exchange was opener Monday 1 morning Aug 1903 upstairs in thle th Sheffield build build- ing building with 24 subscribers subscriber's Geo W Pearson as manage manager Misses Mim info mie mie Taylor and Frances rances Barnes Barney the first operators 1 other were Camilla operator to follow Cami camilla la Barnes Ida Smith Violet OIe Beatrice B trice Jones Myrtle 1 Blood Co Corp Phillips loI Mee le Stron Strong Edna Ruby Phil Phil- lips Phillips felon cA A The The Bou Bountiful exchange was opened Monday morning Nov 2 1903 1303 in Ih present quarters w with th 1 12 2 subscribers Mr 11 v Kate Pearson r 0 ahot also I as manager Mrs Willey Pearson and Miss Ida Stayner as operators opera rs others of the early operators were Mabel Holt Holt Margaret Duerden Delphia Jacobson Annie Fearnley blanche Blanche Lewis Iris Jacobson Jesse Jcsse D Day Dy y I i When the d abo exchanges were opened service w was v s only furnished I from 7 a m 10 p m when the offices were close for the night and the operators re rued med home as it was then thought that the telephone service be e a needed for the oher hours of he four twenty This condition o 0 ily ly Iy lasted for a few months when in fn A gust of the follow follow- ing ins following year ear all ni nig it t service was us- us es ta established usta dished as it wa soon realized that night service wa wai needed for emer- emer Continue on page 4 TIlE I E 01 TELEPHONE Continued J f om oin page 1 as calls or doctors doctor giving fire and burglary In July of or 1904 James Gardiner I succeeded Mr Pe PC son as manager and supervised th two exchanges exchange managerI I until June of he next year when I I I V William Doxey Doxcy pas vas as made mana manager et of Bountiful and Mr Gardiner devotee devote devotee all his attention to the Kaysville ex anger ange The following a C e a number of or tho those t who assisted in of th tha out side plant an nn I 1 I in the lof of new contracts and makin making collections collections V C Wi Icy ey T A Phillips Chras Burton urton J John olm K K Crosby Croby CrosbyJr Jr L T to Handy Bandy obert Robert Summerville Angus Smedley Sam Lee Le Dan Devine C L Ma Ia field As our early will re- re remember re remember member Farming on was apart of the Bountiful l ex ange lance until Decem Decem- December December December ber 23 1907 1007 w n the present ex- ex exchange exchange ex exchange change was open with 45 15 15 subscribers subscribers ers Miss l Leon o ers chief operator operator or Miss hiss Rose Steed S cd ni night ht operator and Miss Myrtle l teed Steed relief operator some of the ot of er cr early operators who served faithfully fait ully the subscribers I Iwho of the were Miss Smith Judith Seed S Amy and Lucy Mess Hess Camille 4 Modena Choffin Choffin fm fin September 10 1309 1909 Mr Ir N G GSmith I Smith succeeded Gardiner i and Doxey Doxer as n m er of the three I exchanges Mr ardiner ar diner transferred to Tooele and Mr Doxey to Salt SaIL Lake Mr Smith held t tl tI is position as mana mana- manager manager manager ger until Octo be 20 1910 when h he was relieved of he responsibility of the Bountiful exchange Angus I Smedley being L S pointed manager of I this exchange o 0 OP that hat date and on the resignation of r 1 Smith as manager of the Kaysville and ind Farmington ex- ex exchanges exchanges ex exchanges changes 1 May lay lOr 1912 Mr Smedley was appointed mana manager er of the three exchanges of the county bounty Tho The Tho telephone s system has a wonder wonder- won wonderful wonderful cr- cr ful growth in the county from the thc first four toll stations in the year ear 1881 1561 until toda today they serve the county I through st stations which reach even into the remote at parts At Atthe Atthe Atthe the three exchanges are employed 15 operators and two w wire lC chiefs To bonnier bommer il at at the Hie golden anni anni- anniversary anniversary anniversary of the invention of the tele- tele telephone telephone tele telephone phone March larch 10 1926 the they arc arc Fe- Fe re- re remembering re remembering the 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