Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-10-27 | Page 4 | When Bell Invented the Telephone

When Bell Invented the Telephone In the letters lotters of Madame do H er mann appearing in Harpers Harper's Har liar Harpers pers per's Magazine lagazino for No em November cr an in glimpse is given of the thc early days of the tho telephone an and other inventions inventions in en now in current use Writing from Iron Cambridge in 1877 1871 she h says Johan J ohan has just como come home from fromn n Boston ston bringing in incredible stories about havin having talked in a machine called cane telephone It was nothing but a wire one ODe end in in Boston and the tho other emin emi em in Cambridge Ho He said he could hear quite plainly what the person in Cambridge Cam Cani- bri bridge said Mr Graham Ben Bell our neighbor has invented in this How wonderful wonderful won won- it must bol be Ho He has put up wires about Boston but not farther than Cambri Cambridge Cambridge Je et yet Ho He was ambitious ambitious ambi ambi- enough to suggest Provid Providence nce What cried the members of the com corn You Yon think you youcan can talk alon alona along alonga a wire in tho the air over that distance f fI I Let et me mo just try it it said saul Bell 11 I will bear half halt the expense of putting up the wire wiro wire if you will bear benr the other half halt lIe Ho was ultra convinced of his success suc sue cess when on talking to his brother in in Cambridge from Boston in order to invite in- in n. n vite itc him to dinner adding Bring your our mother in he be heard distinctly but feebly the tho old phd 8 voice Good gracious l Again What a a borel There is also another invention n called cancel the phonograph aph where tho the human voice is reproduced and can go goon goon o oon on forever fore being reproduced I sanKin sangin sang sanK in one through h a horn and they thoy transposed transposed trans trans- posed this ou on ou oun a a n platina roll and wound it off Then they put it on another disk and I heard beard 1113 voice voIce for for the tho first time in my life If Jr f that is m my voice I dont don't want to hear it again I could not believe e that it could he be 30 so o awful i A bi high b squeaky nasa nasal sound I was vas ashamed of it H. And Aud the faster the tho man turned the crank the tho higher anti and squeakier the voice became The intonation the intonation the I pronunciation I could cool recognize f s my own but the oice Dear me mo I