# The telephone, the microphone & the phonograph

Author: Du Moncel, Th., comte, 1821-1884; Bonnafoux, B. [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75683

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+telephone%2C+the+microphone+%26+the+phonograph+Du+Moncel&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Strictly speaking, the telephone is merely an instrument adapted for the transmission of sound to a distance, and this idea of transmitting sound is as old as the world itself. The Greeks made use of means which might effect it, and there is no doubt that these means were sometimes used for the pagan oracles. But such transmission of sound was within somewhat narrow limits, and certainly did not exceed those of a speaking-tube. Mr. Preece considers that the earliest document in which this transmission of sound to a distance is distinctly formulated, dates from 1667: he refers to a paper by one Robert Hooke, who writes to this effect: ‘It is not impossible to hear a whisper at a furlong’s...

## Chapters

- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-telephone-the-microphone-and-the-phonograph-75683/chapters/21/index.md)