![]() While I was speaking out burst the notes of the “Old Hundred: from an instrument upon the table to the delight of all. When the proper time came I rose to address the dignified assembly of grey heads before me and telegraphed to Willie Hubbard for some music. I had a telegraph wire from my rooms in Beacon Street to the Athenaeum building, and my telephonic organ was placed in the my green reception room under the care of Willie Hubbard. The meeting at the Academy was a grand success. There is nothing like a bold front after all. It was described in a letter by Bell to his parents: Bell would telegraph to an assistant cues, and his assistant would transmit music through the telephone. Occasionally, however, a sentence would come out with such startling distinctness as to render it difficult to believe that the speaker was not close at hand.”įollowing the presentation of the paper, a demonstration of musical tones transmitted through the telephone. Indeed, as a general rule, the articulation was unintelligible, excepting when familiar sentences were employed. The effects were not sufficiently distinct to admit of sustained conversation through the wire. Familiar quotations, such as, ‘To be, or not to be that is the question.’ ‘A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.’ ‘What hath God wrought,’ &c, were generally understood after a few repetitions. Articulate words proceeded from the clock-spring attached to the membrane, and I heard the sentence: ‘Yes I understand you perfectly.’ The articulation was somewhat muffled and indistinct, although in this case it was intelligible. I placed the membrane of the telephone near my mouth, and uttered the sentence, ‘Do you understand what I say?’ Presently an answer was returned through the instrument in my hand. A friend was sent into the adjoining building to note the effect produced by articulate speech. When two persons sang simultaneously into the instrument, two notes were emitted simultaneously by the telephone in the other house. ![]() “Upon singing into the telephone, the tones of the voice were reproduced by the instrument in the distant room. ![]() There, Bell describes his experiments with a telephone as follows: On May 10, 1876, the Academy’s Corresponding Secretary, Josiah Parsons Cooke, presented a paper by Alexander Graham Bell “On Telegraphing Musical Sounds,” later published in the Academy’s Proceedings as “ Researches in Telephony.” In the paper, Bell described past work in the field and explained his recent experiments in transmitting both pure musical tones and human speech.
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