Millions would not be lacking for the inventor.

If necessary all the millionaires in the country would open their inexhaustible purses! The day passed.

To how many excited and impatient people it seemed to contain more than twenty-four hours! And each hour held far more than sixty minutes! There came no answer, no letter, no telegram! The night following, there was still no news.

And it was the same the next day and the next.
There came, however another result, which had been fully foreseen.
The cables informed Europe of what the United States government had done.

The different Powers of the Old World hoped also to obtain possession of the wonderful invention.