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Alexander Graham Bell was a professor of elocution at Boston University and tutor of deaf children. He had begun electrical experiments in Scotland in 1867 and, after emigrating to Boston from Canada, pursued research into a method of telegraphy that could transmit multiple messages over a single wire simultaneously, a so-called "harmonic telegraph".
The Telephone Cases, 126 U.S. 1 (1888), were a series of U.S. court cases in the 1870s and the 1880s related to the invention of the telephone, which culminated in an 1888 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the priority of the patents belonging to Alexander Graham Bell.
Some recent authors have argued that Gray should be considered the true inventor of the telephone because Alexander Graham Bell allegedly stole the idea of the liquid transmitter from him. [1] Although Gray had been using liquid transmitters in his telephone experiments for more than two years previously , Bell's telephone patent was upheld in ...
Only hours earlier, however, Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the same idea, which became known as the telephone. As it turned out, what Bell actually patented would have never worked, while Gray's idea would have. [3] Western Union acquired both Gray's and Edison's telephone patents to challenge the American Bell Telephone ...
Antonio Meucci, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elisha Gray amongst others, have all been credited with the telephone's invention. The early history of the telephone became and still remains a confusing morass of claims and counterclaims , which were not clarified by the huge number of lawsuits filed in order to resolve the patent claims of the many ...
The first incarnation of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was a short-lived company set up to develop the then-new telephone.New England Telephone and Telegraph lasted only a year as a separate entity, from 1878 to 1879, and had no direct relationship with the later company of the same name, which after the breakup of the Bell System in 1984 became part of the NYNEX Corporation ...
Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent [37] drawing, March 7, 1876 Bell's Prototype Telephone Centennial Issue of 1976 The first successful bi-directional transmission of clear speech by Bell and Watson was made on March 10, 1876, when Bell spoke into the device, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
Alexander Graham Bell ceremonially inaugurated the first New York–Chicago toll route in 1892. Theodore Newton Vail, General Manager of the American Bell Telephone Company, created the vision for this endeavor. [2] The first long-distance experiment was the Boston–New York telephone line.