. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . PHILADELPHIA AND POPULAR PHILADEUHfANS. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY. Philadelphia may be called the home of the telephone. It wasat the Centennial Exposition, held in this city in C876, that Graham Hell exhibited the first completed instrument andtransmitted over wires the words, To be, or not to be, whichwere distinctly heard by the then Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro,1 ieneral Grant and others. It was at the Franklin Institute, in this. The Bell Telephone Company Building city, that a gentleman now prominently connected with telephonema
. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . PHILADELPHIA AND POPULAR PHILADEUHfANS. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY. Philadelphia may be called the home of the telephone. It wasat the Centennial Exposition, held in this city in C876, that Graham Hell exhibited the first completed instrument andtransmitted over wires the words, To be, or not to be, whichwere distinctly heard by the then Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro,1 ieneral Grant and others. It was at the Franklin Institute, in this. The Bell Telephone Company Building city, that a gentleman now prominently connected with telephonemanagement explained to eager crowds the philosophy of the in-vention, and predicted the manifold uses to which it was adaptedin the home, office, counting house and manufactory ; and here inPhiladelphia the Bell Telephone Company was organized in 1S79, including among its executive officers some of the ablest pioneersin the study of electric science, whose foresight anticipated resultswhich to the more conservative seemed chimerical, and whose en-terprise made provision for utilizing every discovery that might bemade. Starting with the line system, involving the use of hundredsof wires, where one suffices now with the metallic circuit,and with the primitive hand telephone, which seems a toy whencompared with the perfected instrument now in use, every advancein the science, many of which were made by its own officers, hasbeen speedily adapted to the use of its 6000 subscribers, who nowen
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