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venerable Joseph Henry, whose encouragement to Bell had been so timely. first Atlantic Cable. He listened and learned what even he had not known fitting that he should be there, for he was the foremost electrical both were noble enough to admit frankly their astonishment in the several sentences.... I was astonished and delighted.... It is the wonderful thing I have seen in America." So, one after another, this notable company of men listened to the voice of the first telephone, and the more they knew of science, the less they scientist at that time in the world, and had been the engineer of the greatest marvel hitherto achieved by the electric telegraph." Then came Sir William Thomson, latterly known as Lord Kelvin. It was before, that a solid metallic body could take up from the air all the wondered. To Henry and Thomson, the masters of electrical magic, this reports which they made as judges, when they gave Bell a Certificate that iron disc talking with a human voice. "This," said he, "comes interest," wrote Sir William Thomson. "I heard it speak distinctly second metallic body. He nodded his head solemnly as he rose from were inclined to believe their ears. The wiser they were, the more they instrument was as surprising as it was to the man in the street. And nearer to overthrowing the doctrine of the conservation of energy than of Award. "Mr. Bell has achieved a result of transcendent scientific vibrations could be carried along a wire and reproduced exactly by a the receiver. "It DOES speak," he said emphatically. "It is the most He stopped to listen, and, as one of the bystanders afterwards said, no one could forget the look of awe that came into his face as he heard anything I ever saw." countless varieties of vibrations produced by speech, and that these

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