ABSTRACT
The history of the progress of communication between persons at a distance from each other has gone through some stages which are radically distinct. The progress of communications was bound up with that of locomotion, and, as civilisation advanced, arrangements were made for the conveyance of letters at a comparatively small cost. The old system of increasing the charge for postage in proportion to distance was altogether unreasonable, because the cost of conveyance was hardly perceptibly increased. As a result of the numerous experimental researches necessitated for the continuous improvement of the electric telegraph, the telephone was invented, an even more marvellous and unexpected discovery. The electric telegraph serves as a new sense, enabling to communicate with friends at the other side of the globe almost as rapidly and as easily as if they were in different parts of the same town.
