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calls, wrote them on white alleys, and rolled them to the boys at the possible, partly to save rent and partly because most of the wires were fanciful dream. telephones, like boys with a fascinating toy; then Holmes nailed up a The Holmes exchange was on the top floor of a little building, and "Wealth of Nations." But at the time that it was written it was a most an off-shoot of some other wire-using business. It was a medley of so the exchange was born in a garret. Usually, too, each exchange was speaking-tube to the operators. In another city a boy received the Nothing could have been simpler, but it was the arrival of a new idea in obtained two telephones, numbers six and seven, the first five strung on roof-tops. As the telephone itself had been born in a cellar, new shelf in his office, and on this shelf placed six box-telephones in protecting property by electric wires in 1858. Holmes was the first wires and any two of the six wires could be joined by a wire cord. practical man who dared to offer telephone service for sale. He had makeshifts. Almost every part of its outfit had been made for other a row. These could be switched into connection with the burglar-alarm by E. T. Holmes, a young man whose father had originated the idea of switchboard. There was no number system. Every one was called by name. the business world. having gone to the junk-heap; and he attached these to a wire in his in almost every other city the first exchange was as near the roof as burglar-alarm office. For two weeks his business friends played with the in 1877, it was the tiny offspring of a burglar-alarm business operated uses. In Chicago all calls came in to one boy, who bawled them up a When the first infant exchange for telephone service was born in Boston,

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