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"What has that got to do with it?" "That's going to be my trap, Ned. Here is my game. You know this fellow this strange unknown is going to call up Mrs. Damon to-morrow. Well, I'll be ready for him. I'm going to put in the booth where he will telephone from, one of my photo telephones that is, the sending apparatus. In Mrs.
The American will go to a bad place because he cannot speak English, and is proud of it; but he knows how to make a home for himself and his mate, knows how to keep the grass green in front of his veranda, and how to fullest use the mechanism of life hot water, gas, good bell-ropes, telephones, etc.
So the capping of the climax of the wonders of the telephone would be wireless telephony, each instrument being so attuned that the undulations would respond only to the corresponding instrument. This is one of the problems that inventors are even now working upon, and it may be that wireless telephones will be in actual operation not many years after this appears in print.
I will be here unless this Union Pacific folds up and quits. Why when you come to think of it, I wouldn't want to be where there was mail deliveries, telephones, and such; that's what I am running away from, that and the mob. Good-by, Sam," he called out, as the car took the green lights. "I'll meet you here on the A-Dot." "Good-by, Prince," said the big man as the car got under way.
Edison, who was at that time fairly started in his career of wizardry, had made an instrument of marvellous alertness. It was beyond all argument superior to the telephones then in use and the lessees of Bell telephones clamored with one voice for "a transmitter as good as Edison's."
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. Davenport is the official residence of two bishops Episcopal and Catholic.
Brinn's description through the usual channels, and " the Assistant Commissioner raised his eyebrows slightly. "You mean that?" asked Wessex. "Certainly. He must be arrested by the first officer who recognizes him." "Very good, sir. I will move in the matter at once." "Do so, please." The Assistant Commissioner sighed wearily, as one of his telephones set up a muted buzzing.
Her obvious surprise moved the man to explain, which was unqualifiedly this "Madame, permit me, but we need your telephone for field service." I suppose he may as well have it anyway for nothing so modern and useful as telephones has existed for us since August 3rd. A group of very surly officers have "taken over" Madame R.'s château down in the country.
Where he got them I do not know, but I suspect he simply lifted them from vacant rooms. "Now some Number 30 copper wire and a couple of dry cells," ordered Kennedy, falling to work immediately on the telephones. The detective despatched a bellboy down to the basement to get the wire from the house electrician.
Billy took her by the arm and guided her into the interior of the drug-store to the side aisle where the telephones were, and stepped into the first empty booth that offered. Caroline stopped him firmly as he was about to shut himself inside. "I'd rather hear what you say," she said. Billy slipped his nickel in the slot and took up the receiver.
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