The world's first telephone company and telephone did not disappoint John.

After a few people had been busy for a while, there was an ugly telephone line outside the Huntelaar house, and an equally ugly square box in the living room.

"This is the telephone?"

When all the work was done, John leaned over and looked at the box carefully, and asked with interest, "How does it work?" Well, I mean, how can it talk to people? ”

"Sir, allow me to show you how."

The staff of Bell Telephone Company did not slack off because of John's young age, and said very respectfully. After getting John's permission, he connected to the company's headquarters and motioned for John to come forward and try.

There was only one thing like a bell on the square box, which was both a place to listen to sounds and a place to speak, John leaned his ear over first, and soon heard a human voice mixed with noise: "Hello sir, this is the ...... of Bell Telephone"

"It's amazing!"

After hanging up the phone, John narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a smile.

"Yes, sir."

Nodding, the employee of Bell Telephone Company said with obvious pride: "Mr. Bell, the founder of Bell Company, created this Ming that can be recorded in history four years ago, which is far more advanced than the telegraph!" Now that more and more gentlemen like you are starting to install phones in New York City, I'm sure it won't be long before you'll appreciate the convenience of it. ”

"Hehe, I hope so."

Smiling noncommittally, John stared at the clunky phone and began to stare habitually.

In his memory, there is no trace of such a phone call at all. And after the trial just now, he realized that this thing is extremely inconvenient to use. There is only one trumpet-like thing, and when you hear it, he says that it is also him, and as soon as he finishes speaking, he must immediately put his ear up, otherwise he will miss what the other person says. Because of his unskill, John just made a joke about listening with his mouth and telling it with his ears.

"In a word, it's still too early for this thing to really become popular."

After pondering for a while, John came to a conclusion about the new gadget of the telephone. Not to mention the technical things for the time being, even the rent of dozens of dollars a year is not affordable for ordinary people.

But......

Just as Hans politely sent the Bell Telephone Company employee out, John sat on the sand and pondered: "Although the telephone is not good, but this industry has a great future, is there a chance to make something on the phone?" ”

As a posterity, John knew better than anyone else of his age the power of this thing!

One thing that the employee said was right, the telephone is indeed a Ming that can be recorded in history, or he still underestimated the significance of its appearance, and when the telephone was popularized in later generations, it can be said that it changed the way the whole world communicated!

So as soon as he saw this thing today, John considered the possibility of reaping the benefits from it.

Of course, it's very difficult.

Don't look at the fact that he has more than a hundred years of knowledge ahead of the current one, but the real value is almost all kinds of common sense in addition to the knowledge in the medical field. The work of improving the telephone not only requires a relevant theoretical foundation, but also a strong hands-on ability and the ability to create a new one, which is almost impossible for John. In his previous life, he was a physician, and his knowledge of physics only came from medical physics in junior high school, high school, and college, all of which were theoretical and basically unusable.

The reason why he was able to make electric lights and batteries was because he had done them in high school.

"It's a pity, it's a pity!"

Seeing that he couldn't eat a piece of big fat meat, John was naturally a little unwilling.

"If you can't do it, just take a roundabout route."

After thinking for a while, John shook his head in annoyance, and secretly pondered: "When I have the opportunity in the future, I will buy this company, and then say the ideas such as separating the earpiece from the microphone and dialing the keyboard, and let them study it themselves...... Well, or maybe you can think about the radio, that thing should be worth no less than a telephone for a short time, but it's just ...... Alas! ”

Thinking of the last, John couldn't help but sigh.

In his previous life, his brother was a radio enthusiast, and he built a radio from scratch as if he was playing, and he didn't know how many times he wanted to pull his younger brother into the gang, but John was never interested. It can be said that all the passion for physics and mechanics in his life was consumed in the interest group of high school.

"Forget it, let's talk about it later."

Soon, John shook his head and stopped thinking about the headaches that were giving him a lot of headaches.

After being reborn, John always believed that the most valuable memory in his head was not the specific scientific theory, but the grasp of the future, and the knowledge of how valuable science is now and in the future. And with a time difference of more than a hundred years, he knows too many good things, and it is impossible to study and ponder them one by one. And there are many ways to get a clear idea, you can gather a group of scientists to research, you can also entrust others to open it, or you can even wait until it appears to acquire patents, why waste brain cells yourself?

Thinking about this clearly, he was open-minded by nature, and naturally put aside the troubles just now, and instead thought about playing with guns again. The installation of the telephone took much shorter than Hans had expected, and it was only eleven o'clock, which was still quite a bit before dark.

But just as John was about to go to Hans, Mr. Butler hurried in with a letter: "Sir, this is a letter from Mr. Joshua Stone!" ”

"Oh?"

Hearing Joshua's name, John's heart moved, and he quickly took it, opened the letter, and read it.

Looking at it, John's face quickly sank.

"Smack!"

After reading the last sentence of the letter, John slapped the letter on the table with a strong expression, and scolded angrily: "Damn it! This untrustworthy guy! ”

"Sir, what's wrong?"

Hans was taken aback by John's sudden explosion, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked carefully.

"Oh, it's fine."

John, who came back to his senses, took a deep breath, waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "You are busy with your going, and help me inform the chef that I want to eat fried lamb chops and carrot soup at noon." ”

"Yes, sir."

After a moment's hesitation, Hans suppressed the words that came to his lips and turned to leave. After a month of getting along, he also understood that this little Mr. Huntelaar was far more mature than his appearance, and it was definitely not okay to treat him as a teenager, and it was better to be careful.

After Hans left, John's eyes were again on the letter from Joshua.

Edison refused to pay $20,000 for a patent for a bamboo light bulb!

In fact, Edison did not refuse to buy, but only did not agree to the price of 20,000 US dollars, but the figure he gave did not say that John could not agree, and even Joshua expressed his indignation in the letter, and scolded Edison in a very elegant London tone.

Three thousand dollars, what about calling Hanako?

In fact, the price of $20,000 was proposed by Edison himself, and John did not bargain at all. You know, if it weren't for the fact that this was originally Edison in history, and John in his previous life had admired this Ming family in elementary school, he would not have been able to agree to this price at all!

The world's first light bulb with practical use value, who in later generations does not understand its value?

And don't forget, although Edison was destined to find bamboo silk in the future, how many more times would he have to do it before then? How much time and money to spend?

$20,000, it's actually a really good deal.

So......

"Am I really an idiot who doesn't know anything?"

The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and with a subconscious force, the letter in his hand was instantly crumbled, and then he was thrown on the table casually, and thought silently: "Originally, I once suspected that Edison was fooling Tesla, but now it seems that it is probably right." In that case, dear Mr. Edison, we will have to do business between us from now on......"

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