The telephone, aid given by Faraday's discoveries in the invention and use of the transmitter.

May Airy was consulted by the Postmaster-General in the matter of a dispute which had arisen between the Post Office and the Telephone Companies, which latter were alleged to have infringed the monopoly of the Post Office in commercial telegraphs:

That evening when all the campers were gathered around the fire in the bungalow, listening to Dr. Grayson reading "The Crock of Gold" to the pattering accompaniment of the raindrops on the roof, Miss Judy went into the camp office to answer the telephone, and came out with a look of half-humorous exasperation on her face.

The latter appeared to be a jolly, innocent sort of chap, and he addressed the young adventurer with the words: "Hello!" There came a merry gleam in Desmond's eyes, as he asked: "Do you take me for a telephone?"

The stranger arched his eyebrows, and demanded: "A telephone?" "Yes."

"So you never saw a telephone?" "Never.

"So you really never saw a telephone?" "Never," repeated the man.

Desmond, having determined upon his course of action, assumed a most serious air, and with the greatest earnestness graphically described a telephone, and the stranger appeared to be all interest and attention, and expressed his surprise by innocent ejaculations, as our hero related the wonderful possibilities of the telephone.

At the end he arose and, without saying anything, walked to the telephone.

She didn't even telephone last night.

Rawlins came back from the telephone.

"I don't know what we ever did without the telephone!" XXVI.

And then when steam had had its day, impressing its materialism upon the world; making what should be hard, easy, and what should be easy, hardcame electricitya new science almost approaching a spiritual force, and, with a rush, the telephone that made the commonplace bristle with romance!

His correspondence was conducted by the telegraph or telephone; and the room, therefore, was absorbed neither by books nor writing desks.

And now he was in a large bedroom over-looking the Thamesa chamber with a writing-desk, a sofa, five electric lights, two easy-chairs, a telephone, electric bells, and a massive oak door with a lock and a key in the lock; in short, his castle!

He trusted to the floor-valet and to the telephone for avoiding any rough contact with the world.

" "For instance, here, there's a telephone in every room.

" "Well," she said, "you wouldn't catch me having a telephone in my bedroom.

I should never sleep if I knew there was a telephone in the room!

Fancy being forced to telephone every time you wantwell!

And how is one to know who there is at the other end of the telephone?

He regarded the non-existence of the cold-storage system as one more proof of European inferiority, and no longer wondered, in the absence of the room-to-room telephone, that foreigners hadn't yet mastered the first principles of time-saving.

I 'll sleep on the lounge at the store, and we can talk business over the telephone.

In the old type of city house the travel up-and down-stairs to answer bell and telephone has demanded strength of back not possessed by the modern maid.

The obvious saving of steps by the speaking-tube and telephone-call is frowned upon for the same reason.