Gray (1835-1901) arrived at the US Patent Office at 4pm on 14 February 1876, just two hours after Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) had presented his own caveat for a telephone.

In a new book, "The Telephone Gambit," science historian Seth Shulman concludes that Alexander Graham Bell plagiarized a rival's idea for the telephone.

But Bell’s wasn’t the only telephone patent filed that day. Up-and-coming American inventor, Thomas Edison, along with Elisha Gray employed by Western Union, filed a similar patent for a ...

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence from Russia.

The Bell Telephone: Patent ... swore in an affidavit that he'd been bribed by an attorney for Alexander Graham Bell to award Bell ... who'd filed a patent document on the same day as Bell ...

Shulman says he first took interest in Bell’s telephone patent when he was doing research during a fellowship at MIT in 2004. Reading through Bell’s laboratory notebooks, he noticed there was ...

The popular story goes that Alexander Graham Bell and the second man to file USPTO paperwork related to invention of the telephone, Elisha Gray, did so on the same day, February 14, 1876, when ...

Before Alexander Graham Bell enlightened the world with his 1876 patent for the telephone box and the first telephone was installed in the U.S. Capital building in 1880, there was no way for the ...

Bell, Alexander G. Description (Brief) An experimental telephone from 1876. Associated with United States patent 174465, “Improvement in Telegraphy,” issued 7 March 1876 to Alexander Graham Bell.

As schoolchildren we learn that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. We don’t learn that this is among the least interesting things about him. It takes a book like Katie Booth’s ...

Professor Christopher Beauchamp talked about his book, Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America.He argues that Bell is remembered as the inventor of the telephone ...

On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call. ... After creating the telephone, Bell developed other inventions, including creating the photophone in 1880.