Show BELL centennial progress in telephone service related features the proprietors of the telephone the invention of alexander graham bell for which patents have been issued by the united states and great britain are now prepared to furnish telephones for the Iran transmission ot of articulate speech through instruments st not more than 20 miles apart conversation can be easily carried on after slight practice and with the occasional repetition of a word or sentence on first listening to the telephone though the sound is perfectly audible the articulation seems to be indistinct but after a few trials the ear becomes accustomed to the peculiar sound and finds little difficulty in understanding the words that picture of 0 the telephone as depicted in the first telephone advertisement verti of may 1877 represents a marked contrast to the instrument of today the advertisement is recalled in connection with the observance of the anniversary of the birth of alexander graham bell inventor k 4 m X RECOGNIZE TUIS THIS this scene of a pioneer rural home shows what the he farm telephone looked like in 1914 long recognized as a boon to farm areas telephone service will be extended and improved throughout rural united states during the postwar period briod of the telephone on march 3 1847 although born in edinburgh scotland bell was an american by choice coming to boston at the age of 24 to teach the use of 0 visible speech developed by his father for training the deaf to speak A deep and scientific interest in the mechanics of speech an inventive streak and the challenge ot of making the telegraph talk led to his experiments which produced the telephone on june 2 1875 he first succeeded in transmitting sound over a wire and one of his experimental telephones transmitted the first complete sentence on march 10 1876 just a week alter after his birthday anniversary in addition to being a great scientist bell was a man of remarkable vision which led him only two years otter after the telephone was invented to foresee the day when a man in one part of the country may in ay communicate by word ot of mouth with another in a distant place the fulfillment of that prediction has revolutionized communications in the united states and throughout the world progress has continued uninterruptedly ever since bell created the telephone in the united states alone there are now more than th an 32 million telephones in use more than double the number in 1940 since VJ V J day four and a half million instruments have been installed A major phase of the telephone companas comp anys postwar program is to extend and improve farm telephone service the telephone it Is pointed out always has been the fa farmers rm good friend and loyal assistant in business in time of sickness or emergency or as a means of keeping in touch with relatives relative and friends these benefits will be extended to more rural families under the million dollar rural expansion program with its objective of a million more farm telephones |