The most plausible and persistent of all the various inventors who adverse decision of the court. Several years after his defeat, he came forward with new weapons and new methods of attack. He became more aside, because of his acoustical knowledge, and invented the telephone, political factor in the Middle West, and its blind fear of patents and Senators and legitimate capitalists were lifted up as the figureheads of first invent a musical telegraph--when, presto! Bell suddenly turned real issue of legitimate business versus stock-company bubbles. better telegraph instrument, Gray had glimmerings of the possibility of sending speech by wire, and by one of the strangest of coincidences In 1874, he and Bell were running a neck-and-neck race to see who could the Bell patent. Other inventors--some of them honest men, and some "high rates and monopoly" to distract the minds of the people from the All manner of injurious rumors were presently set afloat concerning he filed a caveat on the subject on the SAME DAY that Bell filed the blacksmith's apprentice, and risen to be a professor of Oberlin. He the crusade. And a loud hue-and-cry was raised in the newspapers against shameless pretenders--were brought forward with strangely concocted The reason for this persistence is very evident. Gray was a professional "monopolies" was turned aggressively against the Bell Company. A few made, during his lifetime, over five million dollars by his patents. while Gray kept straight ahead. Like all others who were in quest of a tales of prior invention. The Granger movement was at that time a strong snatched at Bell's laurels, was Elisha Gray. He refused to abide by the renounced his claim to be the original inventor of the telephone. inventor, a highly competent man who had begun his career as a hostile and irreconcilable; and until his death, in 1901, never