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Title: The history of the telephone
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Casson, Herbert Newton, 1869-
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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stopped him on the street and asked,Have nt you got a good leather business, Mr.Sanders? Yes, replied Sanders. Well,said Hale, you had better attend to it and quitplaying on wind instruments. Sanderssbanker, too, became uneasy on one occasion andrequested him to call at the bank. Mr,Sanders, he said, I will be obliged if you willtake that telephone stock out of the bank, andgive me in its place your note for thirty thousanddollars. I am expecting the examiner here in afew days, and I dont want to get caught withthat stuff in the bank. Then, in the very midnight of this depression,poor Bell returned from England, whither he andhis bride had gone on their honeymoon, andannounced that he had no monej^; that he hadfailed to establish a telephone business in Eng-land; and that he must have a thousand dollarsat once to pay his urgent debts. He wasthoroughly discouraged and sick. As he lay inthe Massachusetts General Hospital, he wrote acry for help to the embattled little company that (74)
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w. II. FdRiii.s, Fip.sr IKF.siDKN r OF lUiLi. ti;li-:iH()M; coiipani- THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE was making its desperate fight to protect hispatents. Thousands of telephones are now inoperation in all parts of the country, he said,yet I have not yet received one cent from myinvention. On the contrary, I am largely out ofpocket by my researches, as the mere value of theprofession that I have sacrificed during my threeyears work, amounts to twelve thousand dollars.Fortunately, there came, in almost the samemail with Bells letter, another letter from ayoung Bostonian named Francis Blake, with thegood news that he had invented a transmitter assatisfactory as Edisons, and that he would preferto sell it for stock instead of cash. If ever a mancame as an angel of light, that man was FrancisBlake. The possession of his transmitter in-stantly put the Bell Company on an even footingwith the Western Union, in the matter ofapparatus. It encouraged the few capitalistswho had invested money, and

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