The Telephone as Miracle
If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words—not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?
Sir William Crookes, Unknown (1886)
Notes
Crookes uses one daily, but is fascinated by it.
References
- Unknown Magazine Article
Schemas
Not in any schema.
Triples
Not related to other memes yet.
Watson’s reading
Tags generated by IBM Watson from the text. Percentages are its confidence.
Categories
- business and industrial 57%
- society 43%
- science 37%
People, places and things
- Miracle Crookes Person
Concepts
Keywords
little stretched disk, Miracle Crookes, elusive inflections, half my correspondence, human voice, telephone, nuances, tone, ear, means, Thnk, iron