"ONE PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT TRACING PAPER”: THE PAN-ELECTRIC SCANDAL AND THE MAKING OF A CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE, APRIL-NOVEMBER 1886

The Pan-Electric scandal of 1886 grew out of a plot by prominent Southern Democrats to seize control of the fledgling telephone industry by filing suit in federal court to invalidate patents held by Alexander Graham Bell and Bell Telephone. The suit led to President Grover Cleveland's appointme...

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Main Author: Harvey Hudspeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Economic & Business History Society 2005-06-01
Series:Essays in Economic and Business History
Online Access:https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/154