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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 ...
The master telephone patent granted to Bell, 174465, March 7, 1876. The modern telephone is the result of the work of many people. [10] Alexander Graham Bell was, however, the first to patent the telephone, as an "apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically".
Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent [87] drawing, March 7, 1876. Meanwhile, Elisha Gray was also experimenting with acoustic telegraphy and thought of a way to transmit speech using a water transmitter. On February 14, 1876, Gray filed a caveat with the U.S. Patent Office for a telephone design that used a water transmitter. That same ...
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 ...
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
11 February 1876: Elisha Gray invents a liquid transmitter for use with a telephone, but he did not make one. 14 February 1876 about 9:30 am: Gray or his lawyer brings Gray's patent caveat for the telephone to the Washington, D.C. Patent Office (a caveat was a notice of intention to file a patent application.
That first patent by Bell was the master patent of the telephone, from which other patents for electric telephone devices and features flowed. [ 12 ] In 1876, shortly after Bell's patent application, Hungarian engineer Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switch, which allowed for the formation of telephone exchanges , and eventually networks.
Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent Drawing, 1876 The master telephone patent, 174465, granted to Bell, March 7, 1876. According to Gray's account, his patent caveat was taken to the US patent office a few hours before Bell's application, shortly after the patent office opened, and remained near the bottom of the in-basket until that ...