THE FIRST TELEPHONE.
SOME INTERESTING PARTICULARS.
Telephones have loomed large in the public eye of late, and something about the history of these useful and- now practically indispensable instruments may be of
interest
The first telephone was brought to England from America in 1876. In 1878 the discovery of the "microphone made- the telephone a thoroughly practical instrument, and a company was started 1 for acquiring and working Bell's patent. The next year that company sought an alliance with the post office, by which the latter would obtain telephones at cost price, and would, in return, facilitate the operations of the company. These negotiations came to nothing. In the same year the Edison Telephone Company was established, and in the autumn of the year announcements were made in the Press that telephone exohanges would be established, and that was the first suggestion! of a telephone exchange in England, although the first telephone exchange was established mi Chicago in 1873.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7680, 15 April 1903, Page 2
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159THE FIRST TELEPHONE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7680, 15 April 1903, Page 2
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