It was he who built up the superstructure of the Bell defence.

He was a master of details.
His brain was keen and incisive; and some of his briefs will be studied as long as the art of telephony exists.

He might fairly have been compared, in action, to a rapid-firing Gatling gun; while Smith was a hundred-ton cannon, and Lockwood was the maker of the ammunition.
Smith and Storrow had three main arguments that never were, and never could be, answered.

Fifty or more of the most eminent lawyers of that day tried to demolish these arguments, and failed.

The first was Bell's clear, straightforward story of HOW HE DID IT, which rebuked and confounded the mob of pretenders.