The Telephone Gambit
Subtitle: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton; W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: January 7, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780393062069
Subjects: Popular science; Telephone technology; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; History; Inventions; Telecommunications; Science / Experiments & Projects; Acoustics & Sound; Experiments & Projects; Biography; Inventors; Patents; Telephone; United States
Description: Although Alexander Graham Bell is widely accepted as the father of the telephone (despite the fact that rival inventor Elisha Gray submitted a similar claim the same day Bell filed his patent), Schulman provides intriguing evidence questioning if the scales were deliberately tipped in Alexander's favor.--From amazon.com.