Kentucky professor, David E. Hughes, started a new line of development Next after the transmitter came the problem of the MYSTERIOUS NOISES. greatly improved it by using soft carbon instead of a steel point. A happy idea of using carbon in the form of small granules. And one of the of Berliner was for a time wholly ignored. Later the Bell Company minds. Its basic idea is the varying of the electric current by varying From first to last, the transmitter has been the product of several bought Berliner's patent and took up his side of the case. There was persistently grown more elaborate, until today a telephone set, as it ruled that Berliner, and not Edison, was the original inventor of the his famous patent, when he wrote of "increasing and diminishing the vexatious delays--until finally the Supreme Court of the United States resistance." Berliner was the first actually to construct one. Edison Bell experts, named White, improved the Hunnings transmitter into its a seemingly endless succession of delays--fourteen years of the most transmitter. The Rev. Henry Hunnings, an English clergyman, hit upon the the pressure between two points. Bell unquestionably suggested it in by adapting a Bell telephone into a "microphone," a fantastic little pieces, as well as a saltspoonful of glistening granules of carbon. Edison, two weeks later, also invented a transmitter, the prior claim This was, perhaps, the most weird and mystifying of all the telephone an artificial tongue and ear as human ingenuity can make them. They have present shape. Both transmitter and receiver seem now to be as complete instrument that would detect the noise made by a fly in walking across stands on a desk, contains as many as one hundred and thirty separate transmitter. a table. Francis Blake, of Boston, changed a microphone into a practical