"Then electricity must be a wonderful thing, to be able to be used by men to talk to each other all over the world, and even to preserve what they say."
"But the phonograph is not an electrical apparatus. The disk, here, with the little stylus, or pointer on it, vibrates and gives forth the sound."
"All this is most marvelous, and I would like to see some of those wonderful things," he exclaimed.
"If you will come to the ship we will show you many of the things that electricity does, as we have a phonograph there, and we have a search light that[p. 147] operates by electricity, and which enables us to see many miles," added Harry.
"Yes; I must see your ship, and I am ready to accompany you any time, and I want my people to see those things, as well."
"But there are many other things that we now do with electricity. All street railways are now operated by it; many boats are run by that power; cooking is done by it, and its uses extend into almost everything that man touches," remarked John.
"If this one branch of knowledge has improved so wonderfully within a space of fifty years, the progress in other directions must be very wonderful, indeed," he responded. "But you have told me so much, and I hardly know how I can grasp its meaning. I suppose things here in this part of the world must appear very crude to you?"