THE FIRST TELEPHONE
The jubilee of the telephone- has stirred some controversy over the oldest .surviving instruments, but it seems to have been overlooked that the first of all telephones installed for private use is now preserved—as' a curio—at vMarlborough ;House .(says a writer in*"the. London. ''Daily Chronicle")-; 'It was originally-fitted on board-H-MiS.'Thunderer, and it came in for . immediate stage use—though only-by allusion—in "H.M.S. Pinafore"—wherein, it may be remembered, when the hero was arrested for mutiny in;, having loved the captain's■daughter,' the -lament ."was+lieard:— ' He'll hear'no tone . -.. -: ■_; ■■: ■■Of'-the-maiden : he loves so well, "-;:-No-telephone '^ , :....'.:' '-.-. ; •'•"-' *~ Communicates' witfr his 'cell. •
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 17
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97THE FIRST TELEPHONE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 17
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