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Show Telephone Many Years Ago. There are not so many new things under the sun as people suppose. The telephone has the credit of being nu entlro novelty, yet Robert llouke two hundred nnd odd years ago, wrote: "I have by a distended who propagated propa-gated sound to a very consldunhle distance dis-tance In nu liiHtiint, or with tw s.eeni-Ingly s.eeni-Ingly quick n motion us that of'llghi; nnd this not only In a straight Hue, or direct, but in ono bended lu immy angles." Here was the Invention of the telephone tele-phone right in hand, so to speak, only I look e did not. follow up the lend. So tho world had to wait two centuries for tho admirable lnti'umeut which saves so much of Immunity's time today. |