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had used a disc of fragile gold-beaters' skin with a patch of sheet-iron really a toy, with its diaphragm so delicate that a warm breath would put it out of order, and toughened it into a more rugged machine. Bell sizes of iron discs, so as to get the one that would best convey the Also, it was Watson who spent months experimenting with all sorts and for the air cavity in front of the disc. And so, after the telephone had transformed into a five-cent theatre. But the business soon grew too big army of twenty-six thousand people. He was for a couple of years Other months, too, were spent in finding out the proper size and shape into a Punch-and-Judy squeal; and if it was too thin, the voice became a been hired as Bell's helper. He began a work that to-day requires an the total engineering and manufacturing department of the telephone the iron alone. suggestions. It was Watson who took the telephone as Bell had made it, sound. If the iron was too thick, he discovered, the voice was shrilled for the shop. Orders fell five weeks behind. Agents stormed and fretted. been perfected, IN PRINCIPLE, a full year was required to lift it out business, and by 1880 had taken out sixty patents for his own Until 1878 all Bell telephone apparatus was made by Watson in Charles he and Watson noticed that when the patch was bigger the talking was properly to the business world. better, and presently they threw away the gold-beaters' skin and used all-iron would vibrate under the slight influence of a spoken word. But hollow and sepulchral groan, as if the speaker had his head in a barrel. Williams's little shop in Court Street, Boston--a building long since of the class of scientific toys, and another year or two to present it glued to the centre. He could not believe, for a time, that a disc of

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