胡适留学日记卷九二一、贝尔博士逸事

卷九二一、贝尔博士逸事

　　（三月八日）

　　下所记电话发明家贝尔博士逸事一则，亦天下无不可为之事之一证也。

　　It is seldom that an inventor sees so fully the complete fruition of his labors as in the case of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. In 1875, he first talked a short distance of a few feet over his epoch-making invention, the telephone. Last week he spoke to his assistant in his first experiments, Mr. Thomas W. Watson, clear across the American continent. Mr. Bell spoke in New York; his voice was clear audibie to his hearer in San Francisco, a distance of 3,400 miles. This development of the telephone in longdistance use brings it again before the public as one of the greatest wonders of a marvelous era of invention.

　　〔中译〕

　　世上之发明家，很少有像亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔博士那样能完全享受到自己的劳动果实。1875年，他第一次用他的创世纪发明——电话，向一个只有几英尺远的地方讲话。上周，他与他的首次实验的助手——托马斯·W·华生先生通电话，声音清晰地穿过美洲大陆。贝尔先生在纽约打电话，他的助手在三千四百英里之外的旧金山，清楚地听到了贝尔的说话声。在此奇妙之发明时代，远距离电话作为一项伟大的奇迹，终于问世了。

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