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[[strikethrough]] A PATENT EXHIBIT. [[/strikethrough]]
[[underline]] Interesting Exhibition of Important Inventions at the National Museum. [[/underline]]

"The first two talking macines ever made are on exhibition in the lecture hall of the National Museum. There are a great many other curious things gathered in that apartment just now, put there for the edification and instruction of those who are interested in the patent centennial which is now in full working order. There is a case full of talking machines and subscribers who are continually tangling themselves up with "central" may be able to discover in the interior of one of the instruments the cause of their trouble.

The first talking machine is a small walnut cone divided. The apex is the receiver; the truncated portion is the transmitter. Those who ought to know say that it talks well, but no company could collect $90 per annum upon any such looking thing as it is. Bell's liquid transmitter is in the case and so is the first form of hand telephone. This must have made even the inventor tired, for it is enormously large and affords a striking contrast to the ear trumpets now so common. The first experimental forms of the Blake transmitter are shown, and alongside of them are the component parts of long-distance telephone. How far this latter will work no one knows.

Mr. H. V. Hayes, who is arranging the exhibit, talked this morning with his family in his home at Cambridge, Mass. - a mere matter [[following trails off page]] of 500

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The title is most likely underlined vs. crossed out since it is the title of a news article. The word "machines" is transcribed as written. Is is most likely "machines".