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America Is A Country Of Inventors, And The Greatest Of Inventors Are The Newspaper Men.

Grand Telegraphic Discovery Today … Transmitted Vocal Sounds For The First Time ... With Some Further Modification I Hope We May Be Enabled To Distinguish … The “timbre” Of The Sound. Should This Be So, Conversation Viva Voce By Telegraph Will Be A Fait Accompli.

The Great Advantage [the Telephone] Possesses Over Every Other Form Of Electrical Apparatus Consists In The Fact That It Requires No Skill To Operate The Instrument.

When One Door Closes, Another Opens; But We Often Look So Long And So Regretfully Upon The Closed Door That We Do Not See The One Which Has Opened For Us.

Sometimes We Stare So Long At A Door That Is Closing That We See Too Late The One That Is Open.