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The History of the Telephone

CHAPTER VII
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We have even girdled the earth with a cablegram in twelve minutes.

We have made it possible for any man in New York City to enter into conversation with any other New Yorker in twenty-one seconds.

We have not been satisfied with establishing such a system of transportation that we can start any day for anywhere from anywhere else; neither have we been satisfied with establishing such a system of communication that news and gossip are the common property of all nations.

We have gone farther.

We have established in every large region of population a system of voice-nerves that puts every man at every other man's ear, and which so magically eliminates the factor of distance that the United States becomes three thousand miles of neighbors, side by side.
This effort to conquer Time and Space is above all else the instinct of material progress.


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