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rendering his famous decision: Bell had once, during his three years of experimenting, made a Reis the wheels and make them slide for a foot or two. Said Judge Lowell, in machine in the most favorable light, admitted humorously that when he that the one indispensable requirement of a telephone is that it shall scientists as Lord Kelvin, Joseph Henry, and Edison had seen the little machine, although at that time he had not seen one. But he soon threw telephone," said Lord Kelvin. And Edison, when trying to put the Reis In the course of the Dolbear lawsuit, a Reis machine was brought into seldom that any word was recognized." used a Reis transmitter he generally "knew what was coming; and knowing Reis instrument years before Bell invented the telephone; but they two in an imperfect way, it was built on wrong lines. It was no more a to transmit one intelligible sentence. "It CAN speak, but it WON'T," explained one of Dolbear's lawyers. It is now generally known that while regarded it as a mere musical toy. It was "not in any sense a speaking what was coming, even a Reis transmitter, pure and simple, reproduces transmit the WHOLE of a sound, and not merely the pitch of it. Such court, and created much amusement. It was able to squeak, but not to speak. Experts and professors wrestled with it in vain. It refused a Reis machine, when clogged and out of order, would transmit a word or when the man at the other end did not know what was coming, it was very it aside, as of no practical value. As a teacher of acoustics, Bell knew code of signals that he has invented. telephone than a wagon is a sleigh, even though it is possible to chain sounds which seem almost like that which was being transmitted; but transmission of conversation; and in a letter to a friend he tells of a

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