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THE pleasure with which those beautiful discoveries and inventions, the telephone, the phonograph, and the microphone, have been appreciated by the world, has been unhappily, and I must say I think unnecessarily, marred by one of the most disagreeable things that can be thrust on the public—a personal claim of priority, accompanied by accusations of bad faith, especially when made against any one of whose name and fame the public has come to feel concerned.
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THOMSON, W. The Microphone . Nature 18, 355–356 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018355b0
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