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  2. Acoustic telegraphy - Wikipedia

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    Acoustic telegraphy (also known as harmonic telegraphy) was a name for various methods of multiplexing (transmitting more than one) telegraph messages simultaneously over a single telegraph wire by using different audio frequencies or channels for each message.

  3. Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy

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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".

  4. Innovation, Intrigue, Subterfuge, and the Birth of an Industry

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    The name on the first telephone patent, which was granted on March 7, 1876, reads "A.G. Bell" -- Alexander Graham Bell. The reality of its invention is much Innovation, Intrigue, Subterfuge, and ...

  5. Alexander Graham Bell - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ. ə m /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885. [7]

  6. Invention of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Technical and legal issues surrounding the development of the modern telephone For broader coverage of this topic, see History of the telephone. Replica of Antonio Meucci's telettrofono Reis's telephone The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by more than one ...

  7. Elisha Gray - Wikipedia

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    Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company.Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois.

  8. The Telephone Cases - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Bell Telephone Company - Wikipedia

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    Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first president and a trustee of the Bell Telephone Company, and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell. At the time of the organization of the Bell Telephone Company as an association (also known as the Bell Company), on July 9, 1877, as a joint stock company in 1877 by Hubbard, [8] [13] who soon became its trustee and de facto president, 5,000 shares in total were ...