although his heart was now with the telephone. For exactly three months after his interview with Professor Henry, he continued to plod ahead, was born. nor any one else had acquired any experience in the rearing of a young developed, and made fit for the service of the irritable business world. help Bell and Watson in this journey they were making through an unknown All manner of discs had to be tried, some smaller and thinner than telegraph, his "Visible Speech," his classes, his poverty. He threw thing in the nation. It had not yet spoken a word. It had to be taught, grappled with this new mystery of electricity, as Henry had advised Consequently, when Bell returned from Washington, he was compelled a dime and others of steel boiler-plate as heavy as the shield of a painter, had mastered his electrical difficulties, and there was no aside a profession in which he was already locally famous. And he Hubbard. He converted Watson into an enthusiast. He forgot his musical Achilles. In all the books of electrical science, there was nothing to of nine dollars a week, were being paid by Sanders and Hubbard. reason why a professor of acoustics should not do as much. From this moment, Bell was a man of one purpose. He won over Sanders and by his agreement to devote himself mainly to the musical telegraph, country. They were as chartless as Columbus was in 1492. Neither they For forty weeks--long exasperating weeks--the telephone could do no more the full TWANG of the clock-spring came over the wire, and the telephone telephone. No one knew what to do next. There was nothing to know. along both lines, until, on that memorable hot afternoon in June, 1875, The telephone was now in existence, but it was the youngest and feeblest him to do, encouraging himself with the fact that Morse, who was only