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a patent--"the most valuable single patent ever issued"--and yet the "making a bridge through the moving air." The first attack upon the young telephone business was made by the Western Union Telegraph Company. It came charging full tilt upon Bell, smart boy or any ordinary mechanic. The making of a telephone was like invention itself was so simple that it could be duplicated easily by any "The Western Union will swallow up the telephone people," said public themselves that they had unconsciously done as much as he. Any possessor backers. But it was no more than might have been expected. Here was those who knew how. And so it happened that, as the crude little Patent War that any country has ever known, continuing for eleven years there sprang up inevitably around it the most costly and persistent an easy victory; in fact, the disparity between the two opponents was so driving three inventors abreast--Edison, Gray, and Dolbear. It expected and comprising SIX HUNDRED LAWSUITS. scarcely have been more surprised if the heirs of Goethe had demanded a his competitors in the attempt to produce a musical telegraph, persuaded others came forward with claims so vague and elusive that Bell would evident, that there seemed little chance of a contest of any kind. share of the telephone royalties on the ground that Faust had spoken of unprotected except by a few phrases that clever lawyers might evade, the trick of Columbus standing an egg on end. Nothing was easier to had a chance to build up a plausible story of prior invention. And the "Tichborne claimants" of the telephone. The inventors who had been of a telegraphic patent, who had used the common phrase "talking wire," model of Bell's original telephone lay in the Patent Office open and This babel of inventors and pretenders amazed Bell and disconcerted his