Thirty-five short years, and presto the newborn art of telephony is
fullgrown. Three million telephones are now scattered abroad in
foreign countries, and seven millions are massed here, in the land
of its birth. So entirely has the telephone outgrown the ridicule
with which, as many people can well remember, it was first
received, that it is now in most places taken for granted, as
though it were a part of the natural phenomena of this planet. It
has so marvellously extended the facilities of conversation - that
"art in which a man has all mankind for competitors" - that it is
now an indispensable help to whoever would live the convenient
life. The disadvantage of being deaf and dumb to all absent
persons, which was universal in pre-telephonic days, has now
happily been overcome; and I hope that this story of how and by
whom it was done will be a welcome addition to American libraries.
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