﻿IDEALS 
  OF 
  TELEPHONE 
  SERVICE— 
  CAKTY. 
  535 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Thomas 
  A. 
  Watson, 
  Bell's 
  assistant, 
  relates 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  on 
  

   March 
  10, 
  1876, 
  over 
  a 
  line 
  extending 
  between 
  two 
  rooms 
  in 
  a 
  

   building 
  at 
  No. 
  5 
  Exeter 
  Place, 
  Boston, 
  that 
  the 
  first 
  complete 
  

   sentence 
  was 
  ever 
  spoken 
  and 
  heard 
  through 
  the 
  electrical 
  tele- 
  

   phone. 
  It 
  was 
  spoken 
  by 
  Bell 
  and 
  heard 
  by 
  Watson, 
  who 
  recorded 
  

   it 
  in 
  his 
  notebook 
  at 
  the 
  time. 
  It 
  consisted 
  of 
  these 
  words 
  : 
  " 
  Mr. 
  

   Watson, 
  come 
  here 
  ; 
  I 
  want 
  you." 
  Thus 
  the 
  telephone 
  was 
  born. 
  

  

  After 
  completing 
  his 
  fundamental 
  invention, 
  Bell, 
  in 
  a 
  remark- 
  

   able 
  document, 
  predicted 
  with 
  amazing 
  foresight 
  the 
  telephone 
  

   system 
  of 
  the 
  future. 
  He 
  also 
  invented 
  the 
  photophone, 
  which 
  was 
  

   the 
  first 
  method 
  of 
  transmitting 
  speech 
  by 
  electricity 
  without 
  wires, 
  

   and 
  the 
  induction 
  balance 
  and 
  the 
  telephone 
  probe 
  for 
  which 
  he 
  

   was 
  awarded 
  the 
  honorary 
  degree 
  of 
  doctor 
  of 
  medicine 
  by 
  the 
  

   University 
  of 
  Heidelberg. 
  To 
  his 
  successors 
  in 
  the 
  laboratories 
  in 
  

   which 
  he 
  was 
  the 
  original 
  worker 
  he 
  left 
  the 
  further 
  conduct 
  of 
  

   telephone 
  research 
  and 
  development. 
  

  

  Turning 
  to 
  other 
  departments 
  of 
  science, 
  he 
  displayed 
  his 
  remark- 
  

   able 
  intellectual 
  gifts 
  by 
  the 
  fruitful 
  researches 
  which 
  he 
  conducted. 
  

   In 
  his 
  work 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  the 
  deaf, 
  which 
  he 
  continued 
  to 
  the 
  end, 
  is 
  

   revealed 
  a 
  dominant 
  motive 
  in 
  his 
  life. 
  

  

  To 
  Bell 
  was 
  accorded 
  a 
  privilege 
  so 
  often 
  denied 
  to 
  those 
  who 
  

   have 
  advanced 
  the 
  world 
  by 
  their 
  discoveries 
  — 
  he 
  lived 
  to 
  see 
  the 
  

   triumph 
  of 
  his 
  great 
  idea. 
  When 
  the 
  first 
  sentence 
  was 
  transmitted 
  

   the 
  public 
  regarded 
  the 
  telephone 
  as 
  a 
  scientific 
  toy. 
  Then 
  the 
  tele- 
  

   phone 
  plant 
  of 
  the 
  entire 
  world 
  could 
  be 
  carried 
  in 
  the 
  arms 
  of 
  a 
  

   child. 
  To-day 
  vast 
  telephone 
  systems 
  of 
  intercommunication 
  have 
  

   been 
  developed, 
  extending 
  the 
  spoken 
  word 
  among 
  the 
  peoples 
  of 
  

   the 
  nations. 
  

  

  The 
  advances 
  of 
  the 
  telephone 
  art 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  successors 
  of 
  Bell 
  

   were 
  always 
  a 
  source 
  of 
  great 
  satisfaction 
  to 
  him. 
  Some 
  of 
  these, 
  

   epoch 
  making 
  in 
  their 
  nature, 
  gave 
  him 
  special 
  gratification. 
  

  

  On 
  January 
  25, 
  1915, 
  the 
  transcontinental 
  line, 
  spanning 
  Bell's 
  

   adopted 
  country 
  from 
  ocean 
  to 
  ocean, 
  was, 
  in 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  dig- 
  

   nitaries 
  of 
  State 
  and 
  Nation 
  dedicated 
  to 
  the 
  public 
  service. 
  This 
  

   was 
  a 
  day 
  of 
  triumph 
  for 
  Bell, 
  for, 
  using 
  a 
  reproduction 
  of 
  the 
  

   original 
  instrument, 
  he 
  once 
  again 
  spoke 
  the 
  memorable 
  words, 
  

   " 
  Mr. 
  Watson, 
  come 
  here 
  ; 
  I 
  want 
  you." 
  But 
  this 
  time 
  Bell 
  was 
  at 
  

   New 
  York, 
  and 
  Watson, 
  who 
  heard 
  him 
  with 
  perfect 
  ease, 
  was 
  3,000 
  

   miles 
  away, 
  in 
  San 
  Francisco. 
  

  

  Another 
  advance 
  attained 
  the 
  greatest 
  distance 
  over 
  which 
  the 
  

   transmission 
  of 
  speech 
  had 
  ever 
  been 
  achieved. 
  Early 
  in 
  the 
  morn- 
  

   ing 
  of 
  September 
  30, 
  1915, 
  words 
  were 
  spoken 
  through 
  a 
  radio 
  tele- 
  

   phone 
  at 
  Arlington, 
  Va., 
  to 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  Islands, 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  

   plainly 
  heard. 
  But, 
  as 
  if 
  to 
  proclaim 
  the 
  telephonic 
  conquest 
  of 
  

  

  