. The history of the telephone . one men to thehighest heaven, from the banking house of Morgan & Co. It was the first recogni-tion from the seats of the mighty in the busi-ness and financial world. A tiny exchange,with ten wires, was promptly started in Lon-don; and on April 24, 1879, Theodore Vail, theyoung manager of the Bell Company, sent an or-der to the factory in Boston, Please make onehundred hand telephones for export trade as earlyas possible. The foreign trade had begun. Then there came a thunderbolt out of a bluesky, a wholly unforeseen disaster. Just as a fewenergetic compani
. The history of the telephone . one men to thehighest heaven, from the banking house of Morgan & Co. It was the first recogni-tion from the seats of the mighty in the busi-ness and financial world. A tiny exchange,with ten wires, was promptly started in Lon-don; and on April 24, 1879, Theodore Vail, theyoung manager of the Bell Company, sent an or-der to the factory in Boston, Please make onehundred hand telephones for export trade as earlyas possible. The foreign trade had begun. Then there came a thunderbolt out of a bluesky, a wholly unforeseen disaster. Just as a fewenergetic companies were sprouting up, thePostmaster General suddenly proclaimed thatthe telephone was a species of telegraph. Ac-cording to a British law the telegraph was re-quired to be a Government monopoly. This lawhad been passed six years before the telephonewas born, but no matter. The telephone menprotested and argued. Tyndall and Lord Kel-vin warned the Government that it was mak-ing an indefensible mistake. But nothing could [252]. WK^^ *<!•■ -_-■---- — Ml, i uiiniiyiir-^-^^
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