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