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