Charles Wheatstone, the best known English expert on telegraphy. Sir By this time it had become evident, both to his parents and to his Charles had earned his title by many inventions. He was a simple-natured down his tendency to consumption, and satisfied his nervous energy by many messages could be sent at once over a single wire? Unknown to Bell, which proved in the end to be very elusive. But it gave him at least a there were several dozen inven-tors then at work upon this problem, As he was then in England, his first step was naturally to visit Sir ingenious talking-machine that had been made by Baron de Kempelin. At came to the small Canadian town of Brantford, where for a year he fought From this summit of glorious ambition he was thrown, several months later, into the depths of grief and despondency. The White Plague had scientist, and treated Bell with the utmost kindness. He showed him an passion of science became henceforth the master-motif of his life. to make a musical telegraph--a telegraph with a piano key-board, so that a picture upon the mind of the impressionable young Bell that the grand teaching "Visible Speech" to a tribe of Mohawk Indians. and famous. And the personality of the veteran scientist made so vivid of climate, said his doctor, would put him out of danger. And so, to had put its mark upon the young inventor himself. Nothing but a change creative genius. He was tall and supple, with a pale complexion, large this time Bell was twenty-two and unknown; Wheatstone was sixty-seven starting-point, and he forthwith commenced his quest of the telephone. come to the home in Edinburgh and taken away his two brothers. More, it friends, that young Graham was destined to become some sort of a save his life, he and his father and mother set sail from Glasgow and sing by a magnet or an electrified wire, why would it not be possible