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THE SPEAKING TELEPHONE
rfo1. Bells Claim to Priority Of Discovery.
London Nature. ntr. :.
Ann ARRon. Mich. Nny. Isl had tho honor
to he one Of the Judges at tho International Ex-
hfbitton ut PHILADELPHIA, and Of the group TO
whom was confldctl the examination Of fnsttu-
mcnts OF research and. precision. In tho per-
fortnance Of my official duty took part in the
experiments which first brought tho speaking
Telephone 10 TIC notice Of The setelti0c world.
Prof. hell and afr. Elisha t}ray were both exhib-
itors nt that Exhibition. Mr., Grny's apparAlus
aIsles, with tho exhibit Of tho Western Electric
Company. whtlo Prot. 1icll's was In d sIdc-roou,
In onu Ut Eailcriea, az q part of the Massachii.
*ctts educational exhibit. About the middle
Of juno, 1876, Prof. Bell camo 10 phllade'.
phfa to glvn personal explanations in reference
TO his apparatus, and before any public
exhibition was mdde he stated to me IN detail
tho character Of hts inventions. lie was work.
Ing ut two independent thinpa.--tho ono the
multiple telegraph by means OF transmitted
musical notes, the other the transmission ut ar
ticuate speech over tonC distances. ! told him
that was present, fn May, 1914, ut tho rooms OF
Prof. Henry, In the Smithsonian Institution,
when MI. Elisha tiras exhibited to us MT appa-
rntus for the electric transmission Of tnusical
sounds and asked him whether lilA FIRST t11ven-
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