The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.