Bell's Invention
Saturday February 14, 2009
Alexander Graham Bell could not have foreseen where his invention of the telephone would lead. In the United States today, cell phones are everywhere. It all stated with Bell and his invention for which he applied to get a patent on February 14, 1876. Interestingly, Elisha Gray also applied for a patent on the same day for a similar telephone prototype. Bell was awarded the patent though there is evidence that Gray actually got his patent application to the office first. Nonetheless, it is Bell's name that is associated with this significant invention.
Comments
Bell’s original patent application was not “reduced to practice” as the Patent Office required and could never have been; what his patent actually gave him rights to was the idea of transmitting voice over wire. The most significant “invention” was ATT.
Re Graham Bell: grateful you check the true story and biography of Antonio Meucci (see Italian Historical Society of America)concerning the real/true inventor of the telephone.Thank you.