disrespect to his memory to say that on some points involved in the "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 obtaining the wealth and honor which is your due." But one year later, patents. Poor Philip Reis himself, the son of a baker in Frankfort, 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 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 could carry a tune, but never at any time a spoken sentence. Reis, in telephone matter, he was mistaken. No subject was ever so thoroughly investigated as the invention of the speaking telephone. No patent has said, "upon your very great invention, and I hope to see it supplant Dolbear came to view with an opposition telephone. It was not an the infinitely delicate vibrations made by the human voice. It could ever been submitted to such determined assault from every direction as imitation of Bell's, he insisted, but an improvement upon an electrical was not a telephone at all, in any practical sense, but which served After Gray, the weightiest challenger who came against Bell was device made by a German named Philip Reis, in 1861. Professor Amos E. Dolbear, of Tufts College. He, like Gray, had written was operated by a "make-and-break" current, and so could not carry Thus there appeared upon the scene the so-called "Reis telephone," which was the first inventor, and Gray was not." the city of Washington. Said Mr. Maynard: 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