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