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...your article on the telephone, you mention "more than 600 patent lawsuits" in which Bell was involved before his patents expired. May I call to your attention one particular lawsuit, that of Antonio Meucci, 1808-1889, a native of Florence, Italy, who claimed the invention of the telephone...
Eight Days is a novel in which conscience is a disease, the state of grace a beckoning Everest. It also happens to be a brilliant thriller, the kind of suspense story on which Graham Greene once had the patent. British Author Gabriel Fielding, himself a Catholic convert, has already proved (In the Time of Greenbloom; TIME, June 10, 1957) that he is one of the most skillful novelists writing in English. He is also a successful physician who knows what few physicians and equally few novelists seem to recognize: that each man's nature is a separate case, that...
Repeatedly Bell was called out of retreat to testify in more than 600 patent lawsuits before his patents expired in 1893-94. Western Union, which had a monopoly on telegraphic communications, at first turned down an offer to buy Bell's patents. When Bell's invention began to hurt its business, it came out with a better transmitter developed by Thomas Edison, went into competition with Bell. Dozens of independent telephone companies sprang up, creating what one observer called "a state of enthusiastic uncertainty...
...assured it of staying there-was Theodore N. Vail, a onetime Western Union telegrapher and Government mail superintendent who became general manager of the new Bell Telephone Co. when it was founded in 1878, later became president of A. T. & T. Vail won the biggest battle in the patent wars by proving that his old employer, Western Union, was infringing on Bell's invention, and forcing Western Union out of the telephone business. As the Bell interests developed through several companies, they bought Western Electric (now one of the biggest U.S. firms, with $2.2 billion in sales) to give...
...like this," said the obstetrician to colleagues in the staff lounge: "A Rubin test had shown the Fallopian tubes to be patent, and a Hühner test showed normal sperm survival at two hours. The patient said her last period began June 8, so by Naegele's rule, the confinement was due about March 15. But her history was bad -a Latzko Caesarean section for Bandl's ring and toxemia-and we found a hydatid of Morgagni then. On pelvic examination, Skene's ducts were normal, but the left Bartholin gland was slightly enlarged. Chadwick...