Excerpt from The Modern Applications of Electricity, Vol. 2 of 2: Telephone, Various Applications, Electrical Transmission of Energy A telephone is an instrument by means of which a sound, a melody, a noise, a song, or any utterance of the human voice can be transmitted to a distance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.