To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Elisha Gray, of Chicago, in the County of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new art of transmitting vocal sounds telegraphically...
In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Photo LOC
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The British TV programme ‘QI’ claimed that the telephone had actually been invented by an Italian, many years before Bell. Bell only ‘stole’ the idea and got the patent.
The Italian inventor who got screwed by Mr Bell was Antonio Meucci. The US Congress actually recognized this and awarded him an official “pat on the shoulder”. Meucci invested telegraphic communication 20 years earlier than Bell.
I respect your opinion, but I humbly do disagree.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Antonio_Meucci.htm
How is it that Gray and Bell happen to be working on the same invention at the same time? Had their paths crossed before? Thanks.
That inventors are working on similar ideas at the same time is not uncommon, for example in the case of car, radio, television, bicycles, and more. In fact, many inventors at the time of Bell were working on telephone type devices. We tend to give credit to the person who succeeds first.
Or, powerful people with money just outright steal the rights to an invention with potential if they can’t buy it cheaply. I saw it happen in Mokena, IL in the 1970s.