It was about three o'clock in the morning when the telephone warning hummed loudly through the ship.
After they had gone, the Terrestrians turned in for the night, leaving a telephone connection with the armed guard outside.
At once they had dropped to the ground and then, by telephone lines, had sent their report to far off Sonor.
So Elder Driver could not know the true inwardness of thistelephone call; indeed, it was so casual that he did not even think to mention it to J.
Instead of being no more than handy purveyors of sweets, of soft drinks and household remedies, they were seen to be also social centers, places for "dates" and telephone flirtations and dalliance.
He had been welcomed with deep, quiet gladness by the home folks, and he had talked a little over the telephone with the preacher.
We went down then to the telephone in the lower hall, and I called up the Yard.
As soon as the street door closed behind them I hurried to the telephone and called a number Colonel Hughes had given me.
They tell me that there was a dynamo and an arc lamp in our circuit, while the telephone instrument was in a neighbouring circuit.
The electrons surging to and fro in the telephone circuit influenced those energetic electrons in the arc-lamp circuit to which the aerial wire was attached.
While we had no difficulty in operating a telegraph instrument by means of aether waves and the tube of filings, it was quite impossible for us to produce telephone vibrations on the same principle.
It is the medium which brings us light and heat from the sun, and which carries our wireless telegraph and telephone messages.
Indeed it may interest you to know that one of my most recent experiences has been in connection with some wireless-telephone experiments.
It was natural that as soon as man found that he could work his telegraph instruments without the aid of connecting wires, he should try to do the same with his telephone instruments.
We are controlled by speech at one end of the telephone line, and we make a reproduction of the speech at the distant end of the line.
When these electrons at the receiving station were set in motion they controlled the electric current from a local battery which set a second telephone disc vibrating in synchrony with the one at the sending station.
It was the nature of these variations which gave me the clue that we were being controlled by the vibrations of a telephone disc.
The waves we produced were like sudden splashes in the aether ocean, whereas we knew that we must produce regular trains of continuous waves in order to reproduce telephone vibrations.
Any other American telephone directory will show the same extraordinary multiplication of exotic patronymics.
Turn to the letter /z/ in the New York telephone directory and you will find a truly astonishing array of foreign names, some of them in process of anglicization, but many of them still arrestingly outlandish.
There is a private telephone system by which stations can talk with stations and headquarters without delay, and without fear of secrets being "tapped," and the public system is also used.
Men get descriptions of the stolen property, and within an hour the private telegraph and telephone wires have carried them to every police station in London.
Then the voice at the other end of the telephone said quietly: "Oh, that's all right.
There are superintendents in charge of the departments, men whom no emergency can ruffle--calm, methodical and alert, ready to act in the time one can make a telephone call.
The telephone boy at the other end, going in search of Zabriskie, left the receiver off the hook and the door of the booth open.
And he rang off and had his telephone connected with the telephone Zabriskie was using at the Stock Exchange.
And expression of the emotions everywhere was by telegraph and telephone concentrated in the one hall, upon the faces and bodies of those few hundred brokers.
He began to use the branch telephone at his bedside, calling up Langdon, and then Tavistock, to assure himself that all was going well.
The telephone led to the ear of his chief of staff, Tavistock, who was at his desk in his privatest office in the Mills Building, about him telephones straight to the ears of the division commanders.
It was nearly midnight before my man could strike a bargain, so I didn't telephone you.
Bell's telephone was placed before the public was not that shown in the patents, but it quickly assumed the well-known shape of an elongated cylinder forming a handle, with a flaring mouth-piece at one end.
It will be perceived that in the Bell telephone both transmitter and receiver were of identical construction.
Although the Bell telephone is both a transmitter and receiver, in practice a more sensitive and better form of transmitter has taken its place.
Furthermore, it is inconceivable how the intelligent, progressive, and scientific Germans could have failed to have given to a speaking telephone in 1860 the immediate honor and attention that it deserved.
If Reis' telephone had been a speaking telephone, this would have been unnecessary.
Bell's conception of the telephone dates back as far as 1874.
But as he had intimated to Janice over thetelephone there was something else.
Even over the telephone the girl realized that her father was more startled than she expected him to be, His voice did not sound at all natural as he asked: "Do you mean to tell me that everything that was in that box is lost, Janice?
Often when he said this over the telephone Janice would respond, giggling: "And this is Knight--Street!
You might telephone to the stores where you are in the habit of trading and inform them that I have charge of your household now.
She knew where he was going to be at that hour, sure enough; she would probably have called him at the telephone in the railroad station, anyway.
She could almost see him taking the receiver from the hook when the bell on his telephone rang.
She went to the telephone and called the bank When she asked for Mr. Day.
Walter's stay in the telephone booth was a lengthy one.
The toy telephone was strung that day from the girls' bungalow to that of the boys', and it worked quite well.
To my mind the camp isn't living up to its name," declared Paul, after the telephone had been put up and tested, the boys sending any number of foolish messages over the string.
We'll have to put up some sort oftelephone from one bungalow to the other.
You didn't have that toy telephone strung to our bungalow just on general principles.
I'd been wanting to go, and I was going to telephone for tickets when these young men said they had two good ones they'd let me have for less than the regular price.
There's a toy telephone that comes now, made of string, but the baking powder boxes are replaced by wooden cylinders with parchment tightly stretched over one end.
And they were talking of the absence of Jack and his chums, who had gone to town to telephone to Mr. Haight.
Jack noted down the none too good distinguishing marks as described by the waitress, and went to telephone them to the police as an additional help in capturing those who had gone with Cora's car.
The strange happenings of the night formed the only topic at breakfast, and then the boys set off for town to get in communication on the telephone with the bungalow owner.
She ran out of the studio to the little cabinet where her telephone was.
The author of The Parthian Arrow was piled up with quilts, cradles and Puppetty again, and I need say no more about the thickness of her skin than that she gave me her telephone number and asked me to go and see her.
There was no telephone at Ker Annic, but there was one at the Beverleys' hotel, and I knew that Beverley would see to it that a message for Alec was delivered immediately.
In the development of telephony also Hughes had an important share, and the telephone has attained its present perfection largely as a result of his investigations.
Slipping over his head a metallic apparatus, not unlike the telephone receivers worn by "Central," Jeff began listening intently.
An attempt had been made to communicate with the aviation grounds, but an unlucky aeroplane had blundered against the telephone wire during an afternoon flight, snapping the thread of communication.
He rang off, picked up the telephone again, called the great Hotel Regina, and ordered breakfast sent to his studio immediately.
When his mother turned him out and closed the door behind him he stood stupidly about until his sister, who had gone into the room, opened the door and bade him telephone for Dr.
Well, she asked me for your telephone number--" "What are you talking about?
Then, of a sudden, he realised that the telephone was ringing; and he reeled from his knees to his feet, and crept forward into the shadows, feeling his way like a blind man.
And telephone home, Annie," suggested Dolly, "for whatever you need.
Alice's eyes danced but only the telephonereceiver saw them.
She made herself mistress now of the telephone appointment, of the motoring lunch, of the dining-room gayety.
He answered the telephone himself and wanted to know if he might not be excused from the dinner and come over, if it were possible, in the evening.
She kept thetelephone wire busy summoning her gardener to conferences and laid out elaborate plans with him for making Cedar Lodge more beautiful for the summer.
When the telephone bell rang promptly at four o'clock her heart dilated with happiness; she knew the call came from one who never would fail her.
Bryson at the telephone took up the matter of summoning aid from town, and when he had done threw himself down for a few hours' sleep.
That day she did not go to the Enterprise Club, where they ate their cold lunch or had the pies heated if they liked; and when Amy rang her up on the telephone she said she was lunching with a friend.
Not one of the young ladies of Philips's downstairs have come yet, and three of them that live some way off have sent telephonemessages to say it's too thick their way, and they want to be excused.
You will find a writing-block by the telephone in the hall.
Freeland, go and telephone Mr Gillies to keep a box for Mrs Mann.
His wife said she would telephone and send him right down from another case but to the boy, remembering the look in his mother's eyes when he left her, it seemed as though the fates in general had conspired against him.
Hobart was at his desk with his ear to the telephone receiver when the great financier came into the inner office of the manager.
Now he strode to the telephone and began massing his forces.
The gun-team of artillerymen are standing in rear of the piece, and in the foreground, to the right, is one of the detachment receiving orders by telephone from the battery-commandant at his post of observation.
However, some customers are forgetful and the battery man must telephoneor write to any owner who fails to call for his battery.
He spoke to me on the telephone less than a quarter of an hour ago.
In the garage I had placed a good suit of clothes and other necessities, and by telephone I had secured a room at a West-End hotel.
The telephone message which had summoned Dunbar away had been too opportune to be regarded as a mere coincidence.
Instant upon the man at the cafe replacing the telephone and disconnecting, I called up the exchange.
Entering a public telephone call-box, he asked for the number, City 400.
The shop was closed, but I rang the bell at the side door and obtained permission to use the telephoneupon pleading urgency.
It was during one of these tours of inspection and whilst I was actually peering through a gap in the hedge, that I heard the telephone bell.
He put down the telephone and turned to Stuart, who had been listening to the words with growing concern.
Remember, Inspector, that voices on the telephone are deceptive.
It is only reasonable to suppose," continued the Commissioner, "that the telephone message which led Inspector Dunbar to leave your house last night was originated by that unseen intelligence against which we find ourselves pitted.
