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746: 59:. Pollok immigrated to the United States about 1884 where he built a successful law practice and enjoyed the opulent lifestyle of a prosperous Washington, D.C. lawyer. Pollok's office was a half block from the Patent Office. He was vice-president of the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and testified twice before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 91:
is also about fifteen feet high - supported by massive polished Aberdeen-granite pillars. Mr. Pollok has been introducing me to some of the elite of Washington. Yesterday we called upon Mrs. Bancroft (wife of the historian)... Today we called on
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paid Pollok and Bailey to work on Bell's patent applications and patents. The well-connected Anthony Pollok was also one of Hubbard's associates in promoting the "U.S. Postal Telegraph Bill" that would have bought all the telegraph lines from
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When Alexander Graham Bell began work on the telephone, Pollok was a partner with patent lawyer Marcellus Bailey in the law firm of Pollok & Bailey. Bell's patron and future father-in-law
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After their death, his heirs established the "Anthony Pollok Memorial Prize" that was offered for the best device for saving lives in case of disaster at sea.
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After Bell's patent application for the telephone was approved on February 29, 1876, Pollok invited Bell to his home to celebrate. Bell wrote to his father:
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to make the telegraph industry a government monopoly, similar to the telegraph monopolies employed by several European countries. The proposed
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pages 273-274 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, December 5, 1899
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contains letters from Bell to Pollok and Bailey regarding Bell's patents for the telephone.
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issued May 17, 1887, basic patent for arc welding, inventors Benardos & Olszewski
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The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray - Alexander Bell Controversy
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Pollok and his wife Marie (born about 1840) were passengers on the steamship
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about 1828-1829 He graduated from the Ecole Centrale of Paris and was
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Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
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Improvement in Transmitters and Receivers for Electric Telegraphs
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Bell patent filed January 15, 1877, issued January 30, 1877
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Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf
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Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy
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Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy
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Index

patent attorney
Marcellus Bailey
Alexander Graham Bell
patents
telephone
Austrian Empire
Chevalier
Legion of Honor of France
U.S. Senate
Gardiner Hubbard
Western Union
bill
portico
Prof. Henry
Smithsonian
Sir Edward Thornton
Library of Congress
SS La Bourgogne
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell Telephone Memorial
Marcellus Bailey
Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy
ISBN
0-7864-0138-9


pages 273-274 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, December 5, 1899
U.S. patent 363,320
U.S. patent 161,739
U.S. patent 174,465

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