time climbed up from his bottle-washing to be a clerk in a drygoods No doubt, if the young men had stopped to consider their life-work as York. At nights he studied science in the free classes of Cooper Union. inventors. Joseph Henry, the Sage of the American scientific world, obey his masters, but anybody--anybody who could speak to him in any keep pace with the business. The telephone men, most of them, at least, language. pushed into deep water. Once the telephone business was started, it had different plan. Several months later he had succeeded and was overjoyed bottle-washer at six dollars a week," he says, in a chemical shop in New which was precisely the stimulus needed by his creative brain. In 1876 to receive his first patent for a telephone transmitter. He had by this a whole, some of them might have turned back. But they had no time to store in Washington; but he was still poor and as unpractical as most philosophize. They were like the boy who learns how to swim by being the transmitter, in 1877, by Emile Berliner. This, too, was a romance. he was fascinated by the telephone, and set out to construct one on a kept down to suit the apparatus, or the apparatus had to be developed to to be kept going; and as it grew, there came one after another a series Then a druggist named Engel gave him a copy of Muller's book on physics, Garden in 1870 to seek his fortune. He got a job as "a sort of chose development; and the brilliant inventions that afterwards made of congestions. Two courses were open; either the business had to be Berliner, as a poor German youth of nineteen, had landed in Castle The first notable improvement upon Bell's invention was the making of was his friend, though too old to give him any help. Consequently, when some of them famous were compelled by sheer necessity and desperation.