Show WONDERFUL TELEPHONE its advent timely in the worlds progress Pl ogress reading 0 the great invention the larger of the telephone is that thai it completes tho the woric wont ot of eliminating the hermit a and gypsy elements of 0 civilization in an aa almost ideal way it has mado mada intercommunication possible without travel bravel lt lias has renamed a man mail to settle permanently in one place and a nd yet keep in personal touch with his fellows until the the last few centuries much of the was aas probably what hat morocco marocco is today to day a regla without wheel ed vehicles or even roads ol of any sort chete Is a mythical story of 0 a w lul speaking trumpet possessed pw by alexander the great by which le could call a soldier who was iva ten tell miles distant but there was not likely any substitute for the voce ex N sapt pt llaga flags and beacon de tires fires or any taster faster me chols v j chei ti fl lit in th the garl garf arl arf lians ho si 0 or r camel across plains the first sensation of rapid transit doubtless came with the sailing vessel and it was the play toy of the tha winds and unreliable when columbus dared to set out upon his famous voyage he was five weeks in crossing from spain to the west indies his best days record was miles and the swift steamship travel ot at today dad not dot begin until 1838 when the great western raced over the atlantic in fifteen days As for organized systems of in ter they wore were un UIL kiowa even under the a per acles or a ceasar there was no Po tice e in great until 1656 a generation after america had begun to be colonized there was no english mail coach until 1784 and when benjamin franklin was post master gen general ral at philadelphia at an answer by matl mail from boston aheu all went well required not less thou than thue taree weeks there was not doi even a hard surface road in the thirteen united states until 1794 nor even a postage stamp until 1847 in 1071 4 JOfE aa adeer der ama in was a born in this same year henry clay delivered his memorable speech on oil the mexican war at lexington kentucky and it was telegraphed to the new york herald at a cost 0 oe f thus breaking all previous records tor for gathering enter prise eleven years later the first cable established an instantaneous sign language between american americana Ameri canE and L drope ns and in 1876 there c came line the perfect distance talking of nt the bell Tel epho P i no invention was ever more timely as it arrived at 1 the th x a at per period d when it was needed for the organization of great cities and the unification of nations |