An English Company has perfected its arrangements for providing sick chambers with telephones. The object is to give persons Buffering from contagious diseases a chance to talk with their friends. Speaking tubes are inadmissible on account of the infectious nature of the breath. In January last there were 137,223 miles of telephone wire in the United States, and there are 518G persons furnished with employment by the exchanges. More different patents have been issued on the telephone than in any other single line of invention in America, the total number for the ten years being 1521.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5617, 13 May 1886, Page 4
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96Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Star (Christchurch), Issue 5617, 13 May 1886, Page 4
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