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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
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ical factor in the Middle West, and its bhndfear of patents and monopolies was turnedaggressively against the Bell Company. A fewSenators and legitimate capitalists were lifted upas the figureheads of the crusade. And a loudhue-and-cry was raised in the newspapers againsthigh rates and monopoly to distract the mindsof the people from the real issue of legitimatebusiness versus stock-company bubbles. The most plausible and persistent of all thevarious inventors who snatched at Bells laurels,was Elisha Gray. He refused to abide by theadverse decision of the court. Several yearsafter his defeat, he came forward with newweapons and new methods of attack. He be-came more hostile and irreconcilable; and until hisdeath, in 1901, never renounced his claim to be theoriginal inventor of the telephone. The reason for this persistence is very evident.Gray was a professional inventor, a highly com-petent man who had begun his career as a black-smiths apprentice, and risen to be a professor of (90)
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JAMKS J. STOllROW THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE Oberlin. He made, during his lifetime, over fivemillion dollars by his patents. In 1874, he andBell were running a neck-and-neck race to seewho could first invent a musical telegraph —when, presto! Bell suddenly turned aside, be-cause of his acoustical knowledge, and inventedthe telephone, while Gray kept straight ahead.Like all others who were in quest of a bettertelegraph instrument. Gray had glimmerings ofthe possibility of sending speech by wire, and byone of the strangest of coincidences he filed acaveat on the subject on the same day that Bellfiled the application for a patent. Bell hadarrived first. As the record book shows, thefifth entry on that day was: A. G. Bell, $15;and the thirty-ninth entry was E. Gray, $10.There was a vast difference between Grayscaveat and Bells application. A caveat is adeclaration that the writer has not invented athing, but believes that he is about to do so; whilean application is a declaration that

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