| Show THE bell BELL TELEPHONE A few days ago the bell telephone patent expired and the discovery became the property of the public it sprang into popularity and general use with greater rapidity than any other purely scientific development of which the records furnish information it should be remembered that tbt the peoples people Is capacity for absorbing tb the wonderful had been as was supposed sup supposed well nigh exhausted so far as relates to the annihilation of time and space by the electromagnetic electro magnetic magnotto telegraph and that thus the possibility of people many miles apart con conversing i dorsing with each other plainly through the same agency was of necessity received with wish more or less credulity but it came it saw it conquered not in the slow and measured manner of abstruse problems generally but at one once instantaneously we haysay may say albeit many there be a majority we think who lung long sin e ceased to wonder at it aud got to looking upon it as one of the I 1 matters of course of our day who do not even now understand the principle upon which it works AI although though from almost the beginning the tb bell telephone company have hao had to light fight for life in the courts their profits have been so vast that the sums suma thus lost loot amount tu to no mure more by corn com parison than a 11 more mere margin it to Is a case of millions gained and thou thousands sanda lost oneff one of the suite aganet them instill pending although brought seven years ago this was by Attorn attorney ky general garland and was designed to aard the patent it la Is now in the united states supreme court and will necessarily perish through inanition nothing to live on it thus amounts to a postmortem pod mortem victory for tb the e monopoly we are advised that another telephone patent will expire next year C but ut even then the field will not be open tor for free competition while what to ie known as the berliner patent continues in force the opportunity of others to compete with the bell company will be limited emil berliner Berli oer applied in 1877 for a patent on a micro phot ahoi e transmitter the bell telephone Is i of high utility as a receiver the berliner microphone is an excellent transmitter and the two form a complete system the berliner Juven invention tion was bought by the bell company compan in 1878 the application for a patent was suffered to remain in abeyance for nearly fourteen years during which interval it is charged that the drawings and models were surreptitiously altered finally in 1891 the patent was issued and unless court proceedings are more successful than they gerein were in the bell case half the telephone invention will remain protected by a patent until 1908 it should be known in this connection however that the government has a suit an pending dl ng coset aside this patent for several r a son sand congress will be asked for a special law giving the case came precedence in the supreme court pen pending ding which the free telephonic competition which many looked for with the expiration of the bell patent is not likely to be enjoyed |
