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five years a sort of scientific Billiken, that never could be of any optimistic Gardiner G. Hubbard, Bell's father-in-law, threw himself Later he met a prima donna, fell in love with and married her, forsook agent's contract in return for a right to become a roving propagandist. existence. It received no public notice of any kind whatever until March 3, 1877, when the London Athenaeum mentioned it in a few careful of the British patent for five thousand dollars, and half the right to the United States an impoverished and disheartened man. Then the entertainment. And to the entire commercial world it was for four or failure. He received dinners a-plenty, but no contracts; and came back has been preserved. "I have been working in London for four months," he to Russia, Spain, Portugal, and Italy for two thousand, five hundred the English Channel. Bell himself hurried to England and Scotland on his wedding tour in writes; "I have been to the Bank of England and elsewhere; and I have Next went William H. Reynolds, of Providence, who had bought five-eights native land. But from a business point of view, his mission was a total Europe, with dreams of eager nations clamoring for telephone systems, sentences. It was not welcomed, except by those who wished an evening's service to serious people. of these. He was an adventurous chevalier of business who gave up an 1878, with great expectations of having his invention appreciated in his and one after another they failed. Frederick A. Gower was the first telephony for ballooning, and lost his life in attempting to fly across not found one man who will put one shilling into the telephone." One after another, several American enthusiasts rushed posthaste to dollars. How he was received may be seen from a letter of his which

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