Telephone's patent war: Was it Graham Bell or Elisha Gray?
Updated: Share Article AAA It was Valentine’s Day – February 14. The year was 1876. But what happened on that day in a U.S. patent office in Washington, D.C. surely didn’t sow the seeds of love. Hours within each other representatives of two men arrived at the patent office. The representative of Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell handed in a patent application to the patent office for an apparatus that transmits vocal sounds through electricity lines, or, in other words, a telephone. The representative of American electric engineer Elisha Gray led a caveat detailing Gray’s ...
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