Word: stableman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Augustus Watson was a livery stableman's son, a shy boy who roamed the woods declaiming poems to trees and stones. He got a job in a machine shop where young inventors brought their work. His interest in voice culture brought him to the attention of Bell, who was teaching deaf-mutes in a Boston school. At the time Bell was tinkering with a "harmonic telegraph" by which he hoped to send several messages at once over the same wire.* The two men accidentally discovered that the tones and overtones of a vibrating transmitter reed could be carried...
...Brawley, stableman of nth Street Garage, had to go without his supper at the entertainment and dance. By the way, Jim, we are all curious and want to know who is the girl on your...