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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Telephone, the (search)
ephone in Boston, 16 miles distant, is distinctly audible to an audience of 600 persons in Salem......Feb. 12, 1877 First-known telephone line connects the office of Charles Williams, electrician, in Boston, and his house in Somerville......April, 1877 First telephone exchange established in Boston, Mass......1877 One form of microphone invented by Edison......April 1, 1877 Experiments begun in Brown University by Prof. Eli W. Blake, Prof. John Pierce, and others, result in the construction by Dr. William F. Channing of the first portable telephone......April, 1877 Handle telephone, now generally in use, made by Dr. Channing and Edson S. Jones, at Providence, R. I......May, 1877 Glass-plate telephone invented by Henry W. Vaughan, State assayer, Providence, R. I.......June, 1877 Bell telephone patent expires......March 7, 1893 Statistics Miles of wire, 1,016,777; circuits, 422,620; stations, 632,946; intruments in use under lease, 1,580,101; average daily co
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er, Daniel Clark, who died in New Orleans a reputed bachelor, Aug. 16, 1813, by will dated May 20, 1811, gave the property to his mother, and by memorandum for a will (which was never found) made in 1813, gave it to his daughter Myra. The latter will was received by the Supreme Court of Louisiana Feb. 18, 1856, and the legitimacy of Myra questioned. Judge Billings, of the United States circuit court at New Orleans, rendered a decision which recognized the probate of the will of 1813, in April, 1877; an appeal was taken, and in 1883 judgment was again given in favor of Mrs. Gaines for $1,925,667 and interest. The final appeal, June, 1883, resulted as above. In 1861 the value of the property was estimated at $35,000,000.] Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin, Irish dynamite nationalist (expelled from the Clanna-Gael, and denounced as a spy by Alexander Sullivan and the leaders, termed the triangle, and condemned to death by them for accusing them of embezzling funds allotted for dynamiti