APPENDIX XXI A HOUSEHOLD TELEPHONE

THE following article appeared in The Times of June 3rd, 1887, with reference to the Herz Telephone, which Sir Charles experimented with on a large scale and reported on :—

Last March our Paris Correspondent gave particulars of some successful experiments in telephoning between Paris and Brussels. The instrument employed was the micro-telephone, an invention of Dr. Cornelius Herz. Other experiments have been made since then in order to show how the forts round Paris and throughout France can be put into communication by telephone, and we understand that the French Government have it in contemplation to connect the 36,000 communes, or parishes, of France by Dr. Herz's micro-telephone. As yet the new invention is little known in this country, but it will probably be introduced here at no distant day.