"The things that were called telephones before Bell were as different science." He gave a demonstration with one end of the wire in a coal human voice. They were in fact electrical claps; while Bell conceived telephone. He staked his reputation upon it. He told the story of the others said that "nothing could be simpler." Almost all were agreed that The scientists and electrical experts were, for the most part, split up into two camps. Some of them said the telephone was impossible, while mine. He stood side by side with Bell at a public meeting in Glasgow, the shocks, so as to perfectly reproduce the human voice." At a public test there was one noted professor who still stood in the Then he listened for an answer. The look on his face changed to one of interesting inventions that has ever been made in the history of meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, instrument with a grin of incredulity, and thinking the whole exhibition the idea--THE WHOLLY ORIGINAL AND NOVEL IDEA--of giving continuity to from Bell's telephone as a series of hand-claps are different from the the utmost amazement. "It says--`The cat and the fiddle,'" he gasped, he had not been deceived. "All this my own ears heard," he said, "spoken to me with unmistakable distinctness by this circular disc of iron." He hammered the truth home that the telephone was "one of the most One by one the scientists were forced to take the telephone seriously. ranks of the doubters. He was asked to send a message. He went to the a joke, shouted into the mouthpiece: "Hi diddle diddle--follow up that." what Bell had done was a humorous trifle. But Lord Kelvin persisted. tests made at the Centennial, and assured the sceptical scientists that and declared: Lord Kelvin exhibited these. He did more. He became the champion of the