The Telephone.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 48, 22 June 1917, Page 2

The Telephone.

A dinner of the American Geographic Society held in Washington recently was used as an occasion ior celebrating the marvellous developments of the telephone during the last forty years. One of the principal guests was Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who recalled that “great day”—March 10th, 1876—when he learnt beyond doubt that complete words and sentences could be understood through the instrument he had constructed. This early telephone was connected with the nest room,' where his assistant, Mr. Watson, was at work. Dr. Bell talked into it,, and said : "Mr. Watson, coma here ; I want to see you.” Mr. Watson came to him at once, and the inventor then knew that hie proW«id was solved.

• Nearly forty years later that original conversation was repeated under conditions that showed how marvellously the range of this invention had been extended in the interval. Dr. Bell was sitting in New York at a telephone fitted with the same Old transmitter he had Used ifl 1876. He spoke through it to Mr. Watson, who was then in San Francisco, and said once more : “Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you.” His friend replied : “It would take me a. week to get tb you now.”