"I heard it speak distinctly several sentences....

I was astonished and delighted....

It is the greatest marvel hitherto achieved by the electric telegraph." Until nearly ten o'clock that night the judges talked and listened by turns at the telephone.

Then, next morning, they brought the apparatus to the judges' pavilion, where for the remainder of the summer it was mobbed by judges and scientists.

Sir William Thomson and his wife ran back and forth between the two ends of the wire like a pair of delighted children.