Forget about Graham Bell, Here is the Person who invented the Telephone

Phones continue to have a major impact in the telecommunication industry. The first telephone was not really invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Bell actually stole the idea from Elisha Gray and patented it. However, numerous court verdicts upheld Bell’s telephone patent.

Elisha Gray was the first person to invent the telephone. In his telephone experiments that lasted for more than two years he used liquid transmitters. In his life, Graham was granted over 70 patents for his inventions.

Gray, who was born in 1835 and died in 1901, hailed from America. He was an electrical engineer and was among those who founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company in 1869. The firm was a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T most of its time and served as the major equipment manufacturer and supplier for the Bell System.

Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the person who invented the first practical telephone. According to Wikipedia, the Scottish-born engineer co-founded the Telegraph and American Telephone in 1885. Bell’s research on hearing and impairment ultimately earned him the first US patent for telephone on March 7, 1876.

Bell would later consider the invention as an intrusion to his real work and chose not to further his studies in telephone research.

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