This is the solar plexus of the telephone body. It is the vital spot. It is the home of the switchboard. It is not any one's invention, as the telephone was. It is a growing mechanism that is not yet finished, and may never be; but it has already evolved far enough to be one of the wonders of the electrical world. There is probably no other part of an American city's equipment that is as sensitive and efficient as a telephone exchange. The idea of the exchange is somewhat older than the idea of the telephone itself. There were communication exchanges before the invention of the telephone.英文原著 · 《The History of the Telephone》
March 19, 1879 221,957 Telephone. March 24, 1879 227,229 Electric Lights. April 12, 1879 264,643 Magneto Electric Machines. April 21, 1879 219,393 Dynamo Electric Machines . July 7, 1879 231,704 Electro Chemical Receiving Telephone .July 17, 1879 266,022 Telephone. 1, 1879 252,442 Telephone. 4, 1879 222,881 Magneto Electric Machines. .Sept.英文原著 · 《Edison, His Life and Inventions》
By the terms of this treaty the Western Union agreed--
(1) To admit that Bell was the original inventor. (2) To admit that his patents were valid. (3) To retire from the telephone business. The Bell Company, in return for this surrender, agreed--
(1) To buy the Western Union telephone system. (2) To pay the Western Union a royalty of twenty per cent on all telephone rentals. (3) To keep out of the telegraph business. This agreement, which was to remain in force for seventeen years, was a master-stroke of diplomacy on the part of the Bell Company. It was the Magna Charta of the telephone.英文原著 · 《The History of the Telephone》
His real position in the matter was once well and wittily described by his partner, Enos M. Barton, who said: "Of all the men who DIDN'T invent the telephone, Gray was the nearest."
It is now clearly seen that the telephone owes nothing to Gray. There are no Gray telephones in use in any country. Even Gray himself, as he admitted in court, failed when he tried to make a telephone on the lines laid down in his caveat. The final word on the whole matter was recently spoken by George C. Maynard, who established the telephone business in the city of Washington. Said Mr. Maynard:
"Mr.英文原著 · 《The History of the Telephone》
For a fraction of a moment no one spoke. Then the telephone bell began to ring. "Dick!" breathed Maggie, and started for the telephone. "Stay right where you are!" her father ordered. "I'll answer that telephone myself, and see whether you're lying to me about Dick Sherwood! No, we'll do this together. I'll hold the receiver and hear what he says. You'll do the talking and you'll answer just what I tell you to, and you'll keep your hand tight over the mouthpiece while I'm giving you your orders.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
If I'd just gone through all the tension and trauma that just happened to you, I'd be climbing telephone poles to take the edge off.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Could you perchance raise him via telephone, find out what's keeping him?美剧 · 《Billions》
The wiretaps on their telephones are no longer enough.美剧 · 《Billions》
Where they don't have telephones, or the internet, and... Oh, my God.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
In a village that has no electricity, no water, no television, no telephone, in a village that has no electricity, no water, no television, no telephone,演讲 · 《One Laptop per Child ~ Nicholas Negroponte》