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Concentrate All Your Thoughts Upon The Work At Hand. The Sun's Rays Do Not Burn Until Brought To A Focus.

What This Power Is, I Cannot Say... All I Know Is That It Exists.

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.

Ordinary People Who Know Nothing Of Phonetics Or Elocution Have Difficulties In Understanding Slow Speech Composed Of Perfect Sounds, While They Have No Difficulty In Comprehending An Imperfect Gabble If Only The Accent And Rhythm Are Natural.