Glimpses of the international electrical exhibition

✍ Scribed by Edwin J. Houston

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1885
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 784 KB
• Volume: 119
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(85)90424-7

✦ Synopsis

The pioneer work done by Reiss in the development of ttle articulating telephone, quite naturally attracted the attention of numerous investigators and il)ventors in different [>arts of the world, and resulted in tile production of various forms of apparatus intended for the electrical transmission of speech Among the earlier investigators in this field the name of James W. McI)onough occupies a prominent [:)lace.

McDonough came prominently I)efi>rc the scientific men in this country as a party to the famous telephone interference suits, deehu'ed in the United States Patent Office dm'ing the last eight or nine years. On" the 10th of April, 1876, McDonough filed an application in the United Stat.es'~atent Office for a" Teleloge, or a means for transmitting articulate sounds frnm one place to al>other through the medium of electricity." This application was placed in interference with the