 In a similar manner, it is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground, or suspended overhead, communicating by branch wires with private dwellings, country houses, shops, manufactories, etc., etc., uniting them through the main...  Edison: His Life and Inventions - Page 194by Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin - 1910 - 998 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Vermont Historical Society - Vermont - 1926 - 630 pages
...from the laboratory, when speech by telephone was possible, but barely practicable, he wrote this: "It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires...dwellings, country houses, shops, manufactories, etc., etc. — uniting them through the main cable with a central office where the wire could be connected... | |
 | Herbert Newton Casson - Telephone - 1910 - 380 pages
...or factory with a central station, so as to give him direct communication with his neighbors. . . . It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground, or suspended overhead, connecting by branch wires with private dwellings, shops, etc., and uniting them through the main cable... | |
 | Herbert Newton Casson - Telephone - 1910 - 384 pages
...or factory with a central station, so as to give him direct communication with his neighbors. . . . It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground, OF suspended overhead, connecting by branch wires with private dwellings, shops, etc., and uniting... | |
 | John E. Kingsbury - Telephone - 1915 - 594 pages
...various dwellings, enabling the members to draw their supplies of gas and water from a common source. In a similar manner, it is conceivable that cables...private dwellings, country houses, shops, manufactories, &c., &c., uniting them through the main cable with a central office where the wire could be connected... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln Lavine - Military telephone - 1921 - 732 pages
..."the future of the telephone," in 1878, he drew forth the following picture from his mental image : "It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground or suspended overhead, connecting up by branch wires private dwellings, country houses, shops, manufacturing establishments,... | |
 | Telephone - 1921 - 646 pages
...or factory, with a central station, so as to give him direct communication with his neighbors. ... It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground, or suspended overhead, connecting by branch wires with private dwellings, shops, etc., and uniting them through the main cable... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1923 - 994 pages
...Professor Bell's vision of the future was given in a statement to prospective investors. He said : " It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could...dwellings, country houses, shops, manufactories, etc., etc. — uniting them through the main cable with a central office where the wires could be connected... | |
 | Annie E. S. Beard - Immigrants - 1922 - 340 pages
...ultimate results of his discovery, that in a public address at Kensington, England, in 1878, he said: "It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground or suspended overhead, connecting up by branch wires private dwellings, country houses, shops, manufacturing establishments,... | |
 | Telephone Pioneers of America - Telephone - 1923 - 166 pages
...prediction which was strikingly prophetic. In a letter addressed to a group of gentlemen in London, he said: "It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires...country houses, shops, manufactories, etc., uniting them all through the main cable with a central office where the wires could be connected as desired, establishing... | |
 | Arthur Pound - Telephone - 1926 - 72 pages
...foray into prophecy, perhaps the most successful leap into the hidden future taken by a modern mind: "It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground or suspended overhead, connecting by branch wires with private dwellings, country houses, shops, manufactories, etc., etc.,... | |
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