The Age of Big Business : a Chronicle of the Captains of Industry
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Reis, in particular, never grasped the essential principles that ultimately made the telephone a reality. His work occupies a place in telephone history only be- cause certain financial interests, many years after his death, brought it to light in an attempt to discredit Bell's claim to priority as the inven- tor. An investigator who seems to have grasped more clearly the basic idea was the distinguished Digitized by Microsoft® THE TELEPHONE 97 American inventor Elisha Gray, already mentioned a...s the man who had succeeded in perfecting the "harmonic telegraph." On February 14, 1876, Gray filed a cav eat in the Unit ed tstates^ J'at- ent'Otiice, settmg lorth pretty accurately the con- ception^ the electric telephone. The tragedy in Gray's work consists in the fact that, two hours before his caveat had been put in. Bell had filed his application for a patent on the completed instrument . .. The champions of Bell and Gray may dispute the question of priority to their heart's content; the historic fact is that the telephone dates from a dramatic moment in the year 1876.
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