he was the original inventor. His real position in the matter was once application. A caveat is a declaration that the writer has NOT invented Gray could never forget that he had seemed to be, for a time, so close and more definite. It is now clearly seen that the telephone owes nothing to Gray. There When all the evidence in the various Gray lawsuits is sifted out, there Western Union agreement, he reappeared with claims that had grown larger thirty-ninth entry was "E. Gray, $10." well and wittily described by his partner, Enos M. Barton, who said: "Of a thing, but believes that he is about to do so; while an APPLICATION is are no Gray telephones in use in any country. Even Gray himself, as he to the golden prize; and seven years after he had been set aside by the application for a patent. Bell had arrived first. As the record book spoken by George C. Maynard, who established the telephone business in Bell.... The currents are too feeble"; second, Gray the CONVERT, who a practical speaking telephone on the principle shown by Professor wrote frankly to Bell in 1877, "I do not claim the credit of inventing shows, the fifth entry on that day was: "A. G. Bell, $15"; and the SCOFFER, who examined Bell's telephone at the Centennial and said it all the men who DIDN'T invent the telephone, Gray was the nearest." admitted in court, failed when he tried to make a telephone on the lines appear to have been three distinctly different Grays: first, Gray the was "nothing but the old lover's telegraph. It is impossible to make it"; and third, Gray the CLAIMANT, who endeavored to prove in 1886 that laid down in his caveat. The final word on the whole matter was recently There was a vast difference between Gray's caveat and Bell's a declaration that the writer has already perfected the invention. But