to forward Bell in the direction of the telephone. several tuning-forks together to produce the complex quality of the by Helmholtz, who, in the period from 1871 to 1894 made Berlin the Ellis and Sir Charles Wheatstone, who did far more than they ever knew of message-carrier. His aim was to point out the physical basis of Shortly afterwards, he met in London two distinguished men, Alexander J. of elocution in various British schools, and by the time he was of age when Bell ran to Ellis as a young enthusiast and told his experiments, the translator of the famous book on "The Sensations of Tone," written was sixteen years of age, he had read nothing but novels and poetry and up a smattering of anatomy, music, electricity, and telegraphy. Until he vibration by the power of electro-magnets, and blended the tones of Ellis was the president of the London Philological Society. Also, he was world-centre for the study of the physical sciences. So it happened that before and done them more completely. He brought Bell to his house and Ellis informed him that Helmholtz had done the same things several years showed him what Helmholtz had done--how he had kept tuning-forks in at once to him as a student of speech. If a tuning-fork could be made to some note on his own account. He had been educated in Edinburgh, the a tuning-fork humming was new to Bell and very attractive. It appealed city of his birth, and in London; and had in one way and another picked he had made several slight discoveries as to the nature of vowel-sounds. Now, Helmholtz had not been trying to invent a telephone, nor any sort human voice. music, and nothing more. But this fact that an electro-magnet would set romantic tales of Scottish heroes. Then he left home to become a teacher ear caught the first cry of the telephone. But he was already a man of