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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.
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".
Weekly Advocate, Pacific Appeal, The Elevator Philip Alexander Bell (1808–1889) was a 19th-century American newspaper editor and abolitionist . Born in New York City, he was educated at the African Free School [ 1 ] and became politically active at the 1832 Colored Convention .
In United States v.United States Gypsum Co., [2] the Supreme Court recognized that Bell Telephone held that the United States was "without standing to bring a suit in equity to cancel a patent on the ground of invalidity," but went on to declare that, to vindicate the public interest in enjoining violations of the Sherman Act, the United States is entitled to attack the validity of patents ...
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]
Pacific Appeal was co-founded by Philip Alexander Bell, an African-American civil rights and antislavery activist who had established Weekly Advocate (edited by Samuel Cornish) and worked for William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, [4] and Peter Anderson, a San Francisco civil rights activist and delegate at the California Colored Citizens Convention. [5]
Alexander Graham Bell, about to call San Francisco from New York. A telephone call, which for marketing purposes is claimed to be the first transcontinental telephone call, occurred on January 25, 1915, a day timed to coincide with the Panama–Pacific International Exposition celebrations.
Born in New York City in 1808, Philip Alexander Bell was a journalist and abolitionist politician who was African American. [3] He first began working in newspapers in 1831 as the New York City agent for The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist paper. [4]