Title: Who really invented the telephone?
Headings: Who Really Invented the Telephone?
Who Really Invented the Telephone?
Content: and knowing what was coming, even a Reis  transmitter, pure and simple, reproduces sounds which seem almost like that which was  being transmitted; but when the man at the other end did not know what was coming, it was  very seldom that any word was recognized." In the course of the Dolbear lawsuit, a Reis  machine was brought into court, and created much amusement. It was able to squeak, but not  to speak. Experts and professors wrestled with it in vain. It refused to transmit one  intelligible sentence. " It CAN speak, but it WON'T," explained one of Dolbear's  lawyers. It is now generally known that while a Reis machine, when clogged and out of  order, would transmit a word or two in an imperfect way, it was built on wrong lines. It  was no more a telephone than a wagon is a sleigh, even though it is possible to chain the  wheels and make them slide for a foot or two. Said Judge Lowell, in rendering his famous  decision: