Germany, had hoped to make a telephone, but he had failed. His machine his later years, realized that his machine could never be used for the well enough for nine years or more as a weapon to use against the Bell Bell's; and no inventor has ever been more completely vindicated. Bell a letter of applause to Bell in 1877. "I congratulate you, sir," he could carry a tune, but never at any time a spoken sentence. Reis, in the city of Washington. Said Mr. Maynard: Thus there appeared upon the scene the so-called "Reis telephone," which imitation of Bell's, he insisted, but an improvement upon an electrical patents. Poor Philip Reis himself, the son of a baker in Frankfort, After Gray, the weightiest challenger who came against Bell was ever been submitted to such determined assault from every direction as was the first inventor, and Gray was not." telephone matter, he was mistaken. No subject was ever so thoroughly Professor Amos E. Dolbear, of Tufts College. He, like Gray, had written device made by a German named Philip Reis, in 1861. investigated as the invention of the speaking telephone. No patent has "Mr. Gray was an intimate and valued friend of mine, but it is no all forms of existing telegraphs, and that you will be successful in transmit the pitch of a sound, but not the QUALITY. At its best, it disrespect to his memory to say that on some points involved in the Dolbear came to view with an opposition telephone. It was not an the infinitely delicate vibrations made by the human voice. It could obtaining the wealth and honor which is your due." But one year later, was operated by a "make-and-break" current, and so could not carry was not a telephone at all, in any practical sense, but which served said, "upon your very great invention, and I hope to see it supplant