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A Watson of Boston Is Honored Guest of the Rotary Club TELLS OF HIS TRIALS Interesting History Is Given of Early Experiments and Final Success The Rotarv club had as its guest at the weekly meeting last evening T A Watson a multi millionaire of Boston who n ade the first telephone He was Professor Bell s electrical mechanic in Boston while the inventor was n akmg his experiments Mr Watson 6hared with Professor Bell in the first tri umphs and later acquired wealth as a member of the Bell corporation Mr Watson and Professor Bell made the first test of the long d stance telephone tele-phone the former in Cambridge and the latter in Boston And they made the last test of the long distance telephone when a conversation was carried on across the An er can cont ncnt a few weeks ago Mr Watson in San Fran cioco and Professor Bell at the eastern end of the 1 no Mr Watson is now on h s way home irom San Franci&co after making the test II s talk last n ght was of the early experiments and the development of the telephone Story Is Interesting In the early Os the onlv electrical apparatus man tactnred in this country cons sted of call bells telegraph instru raents and a few other devices Where factor es now emplov sometimes 0,000 men not a s ngle factory in those days employed more than thirty men. In the largest establishment which was lo cated n Boston Watson was an ap J rent ca. Every day inventors entered the factorv to try out some of the r deVi es Most of the men were vis on ary and few of them e er succeeded n n aking anything worth while lhere were two exceptions Moses & Farmer was then experimenting w th mine exploding dev ces which after ward le 1 to most important resnlts. Bell was a professor in a small university and was en ployed by the telegraph company to exper ment with telegraph mstru ments When he first went to the shop where Watson was employed he was try mg to perfect a sort of harmon c tele g aph nstrument with vamng tones It eons sted of a rece ver and transm tter I.5 and springs of different s zes wh ch were supposed to vary the singing J sounds although thev performed their work poorly t "Makes a Prediction One night Bell said to Watson Ton will be surpr sed at an inven tion which I have m my m nd. I am sore that some day I shall be able to talk by telegraph fr While experimenting with the har momc telegraph instrument Bell and Wa son one night installed the trans nutter m one room and the re ceiver in another It was Bell s custom to hold the transmitter to h 3 ear for the purpose of attun ng the vibrat ons to a certain scale that would accord witb the make-np of the receiving n strament Watson was unable to make the receiver work and after shaking t he began plnckmg angrily at the metal contact points Suddenly Bell rushed nto the room and commanded Watson not to touch the instrument Leave it just as it was and explain to me what you did le said. Watson told Bell mst what har1 happened and -an examination of the instrument showed that the elec tncal current had melted the points and welded the machine together in such a manner as to form a rudimentary telephony Instrument Is, Tested That night Bell gave atson lnstruc tions for the making of a telephone eit day which was June 2 18 5 the instrument was tried in the factory after all the employees had gone home Bell could not hear a word that Watson said while Watson bel eved that he de ' tected some of Bell s words He rushed upstairs where Bell was at the other end of the line and insisted that he heard certain words and repeated them. Bell had used thonfl words 7n t-n months Bell experimented and Watson made the devices During that period he made diaphragms of various sizes and materials, from one four feet in diam eter of iron half an inch thick to a very minute diaplrragm made out of the tissues of a human ear On Oc tober 9 1876 Bell had brought his tele phone to such a state of perfection that he asked the telegraph company to per rait him to try the invention on the wire extending frnm Boston to Cam r ridge The telephones were cut m on the telegraph wire but at first there was not a single sound First Success, Scored Bell was at one end of the I ne roar ing and sputtering and TV atson n Cam bridge was utterly prostrated to find that the instrument d 1 not work At length he surmised that something was wrong w th the Current and a little investigation showed that there was a telegraph instrument in the other room and a large co 1 which absorbed the cur rent He c t out the telegraph mstru ment and then the telephone workel T"am ficently That n ght n Bosto BefT gave to one of the Boston newspa e s an acco nt of the d scov erj Mr Watson recounted br efly the fa mo s s its brought bv the Western 1 nion Telegraph company to break the Bell ratents and of the final triumph of the Bell companv in all the courts Sfr Watson will speak Hea n ton trht on the same topic at Barratt hall nder the a sp ces of the telephone con pan Kt t! e clos of Mr Watson s talk the routine b s ness of the clul was taken r It was vote! to give the Inter m ntn Association of Amateur Ath le es $50 to aiply on tne purchise ot me lals for w nners of contests n the 1 ox IB an 1 wrcstl ng toirnatnent to I held her next week f y C oesbek general n anager of the Ltah I owe noil 1 ght ompany was alnttel In n rr lersh p n the 1 I |