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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

With the help of his father-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell organized the first telephone company, The Bell Telephone Company. The company started out as a joint-stock company and was founded in ...

The Supreme Court held that “It appears from the proof in these causes that Alexander Graham Bell was the first discoverer of the art or process of transferring to, or impressing upon, a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...