Sanders and Hubbard, much annoyed that Bell had abandoned his harmonic telegraph for so visionary an idea as a long distance talking machine, refused to finance him further unless he returned to his original quest.

桑德斯和賀伯特對貝爾放棄他的谐波電報而投棄他的谐波電報，因為像遠距發聲機器這樣有遠見的想法感到非常惱火，他們拒絕為他提供更進一步的資助，除非他回到他最初的追求。