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.

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.

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 ...

The ostensible topic of Seth Shulman’s new book, The Telephone Gambit, is how Alexander Graham Bell cheated his way into owning the phone patent. Apparently Bell copied research from his chief ...

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 ...

Nearly 150 years ago in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received the first U.S. patent for a telephone completely unrecognizable from modern devices. The first phone had two conical-shaped pieces, one ...

We've come a long way with our smart phone technology since Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone on this date in 1876. This morning we're looking for songs about phones, calls, and the ...