Who is credited as inventing the telephone? Was it Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, or Antonio Meucci? (Everyday Mysteries: Fun Science Facts from the Library of Congress) Who is credited as inventing the telephone? Was it Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, or Antonio Meucci? Alexander Graham Bell is often credited as the inventor of the telephone since he was awarded the first successful patent. However, there were many other inventors such as Elisha Gray and Antonio Meucci who also developed a talking telegraph. Attributing the true inventor or inventors to a specific invention can be tricky business. Often credit goes to the inventor of the most practical or best working invention rather than to the original inventor(s). This happens to be the case of the invention of the telephone! There is a lot of controversy and intrigue surrounding the invention of the telephone. There have been court cases, books, and articles generated about the subject. Of course, Alexander Graham Bell is the father of the telephone. After all it was his design that was first patented, however, he was not the first inventor to come up with the idea of a telephone.

Antonio Meucci, an Italian immigrant, began developing the design of a talking telegraph or telephone in 1849. In 1871, he filed a caveat (an announcement of an invention) for his design of a talking telegraph. Due to hardships, Meucci could not renew his caveat. His role in the invention of the telephone was overlooked until the United States House of Representatives passed a Resolution on June 11, 2002, honoring Meucci's contributions and work. You can read the resolution (107th Congress, H Res 269) on Congress.gov . To make matters even more interesting some researchers suggest that Elisha Gray, a professor at Oberlin College, applied for a caveat of the telephone on the same day Bell applied for his patent of the telephone- these gentlemen didnï¿½t actually visit the Patent Office, their lawyers did on their behalf. In Historical First Patents: The First United States Patent for Many Everyday Things (Scarecrow Press, 1994), Travis Brown, reports that Bellï¿½s lawyer got to the patent office first. The date was February 14, 1876.

He was the fifth entry of that day, while Grayï¿½s lawyer was 39th. Therefore, the U.S. Patent Office awarded Bell with the first patent for a telephone, US Patent Number 174,465 rather than honor Gray's caveat. However, some authors dispute this story and suggest that there was malfeasance by certain individuals at Patent Office, and possibly Bell himself. If someone asks who is credited with inventing the telephone, you can explain the controversy that still surrounds this question. Related Web Sites Alexander Graham Bell's Family Papers From the Library of Congress American Memory Web site, the collection includes "correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. Dates span from 1862 to 1939, but the bulk of the materials are from 1865 to 1920." Antonio Meucci A short history of Antonio Meucci from the Italian Historical Society of America.

Antionio Meucci Revisited This Web page provides details of Antonio Meucci's telephone which includes drawings. Elisha Gray This Web page from the Electronic Oberlin Group, provides a brief history of Elisha Gray along with related Web links for more information. PBS: The Telephone - PBS provides the transcript to the film "The Telephone," a gallery, people & events, and a teacher's guide. The Special Feature section also provides information about forgotten inventions such as the can opener. Further Reading Baker, Burton H. The gray matter: the forgotten story of the telephone. St. Joseph, MI, Telepress, 2000. 140 p. Grosvenor, Edwin & Morgan Wesson. Alexander Graham Bell: the life and times of the man who invented the telephone. New York, Harry Abrams, 1997. 304 p. Schiavo, Giovanni Ermenegildo. Antonio Meucci, inventor of the telephone. New York, Vigo Press, c1958. 288 p. Stwerka, Eve & Albert. Hello! Hello! A look inside the telephone. Englewood Cliffs, NJ., Messner, c1991.

40 p. (Juvenile) Hounshell, D.A. Two paths to the telephone. Scientific American, v. 244, January 1981: 156-163. For more print resources... Search on "Alexander Graham Bell," "Elisha Grey," or "Antonio Meucci" in the Library of Congress Online Catalog . Alexander Graham Bell - Inventions - HISTORY.com Alexander Graham Bell A+E Networks Introduction Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-born American scientist best known as the inventor of the telephone, worked at a school for the deaf while attempting to invent a machine that would transmit sound by electricity. Bell was granted the first official patent for his telephone in March 1876, though he would later face years of legal challenges to his claim that he was its sole inventor, resulting in one of history’s longest patent battles. Bell continued his scientific work for the rest of his life, and used his success and wealth to establish various research centers nationwde. Google Bell owes his immortality to his having been the first to design and patent a practical device for transmitting the human voice by means of an electric current.

But Bell always described himself simply as a “teacher of the deaf,” and his contributions in that field were of the first order. Did You Know? Though he is credited with its invention, Alexander Graham Bell refused to have a telephone in his study, fearing it would distract him from his scientific work. Bell, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, was educated there and at the University of London. He also studied under his grandfather, Alexander Bell, a noted speech teacher. He taught elocution, assisted his father, also a speech teacher and noted phonetician, and taught at a school for the deaf in England, using his father’s methods. In 1870, Bell immigrated with his parents to Canada. Two years later he established a school for the deaf in Boston, Massachusetts , and the following year became a professor in speech and vocal physiology at Boston University. While teaching he experimented with a means of transmitting several telegraph messages simultaneously over a single wire and also with various devices to help the deaf learn to speak, including a means of graphically recording sound waves. In 1874 the essential idea of the telephone formed in his mind.

As he later explained it, “If I could make a current of electricity vary in intensity precisely as the air varies in density during the production of sound, I should be able to transmit speech telegraphically.” Two years later he applied for a patent, which was granted on March 7, 1876. On March 10, the first coherent complete sentence—the famous “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you”—was transmitted in his laboratory. In later years Bell experimented with a means to detect metal in wounds and with a vacuum-jacket respirator that led to the development of the iron lung. He helped bring Thomas A. Edison’s phonograph to commercial practicality and experimented with hydrofoil boats and with airplanes as early as the 1890s. With the wealth derived from the telephone, Bell was able to assist the careers of other scientists. He also founded and helped finance the journal Science, today the premier American scientific journal, and the National Geographic Society. While constantly engaged in scientific experiments, Bell crusaded tirelessly on behalf of the deaf, encouraging their integration into society with the help of lip-reading and other techniques. In 1890 he founded the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf.

He died in 1922 at his summer home on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. People throughout North America were urged to refrain from making phone calls during his burial so that telephones would remain silent as a tribute. Robert V. Bruce, Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude (1973). John Steele Gordon The Reader’s Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Tags Did Antonio Meucci Invent the Telephone? By Mary Bellis Updated August 09, 2016. Who was the first inventor of the telephone and would Antonio Meucci have won his case against Alexander Graham Bell if he had lived to see it adjudicated? Bell was the first person to patent the telephone, and his company was the first to bring telephone services successfully to the marketplace. But people are passionate in putting forward other inventors who deserve the credit. These include Meucci, who accused Bell of stealing his ideas. Another example is Elisha Gray , who almost patented the telephone before Alexander Graham Bell did.

There are a few other inventors who have invented or claimed a telephone system including Johann Philipp Reis, Innocenzo Manzetti, Charles Bourseul, Amos Dolbear, Sylvanus Cushman, Daniel Drawbaugh, Edward Farrar, and James McDonough. Antonio Meucci and the Patent Caveat for the Telephone Antonio Meucci filed a patent caveat for a telephone device in December of 1871. Patent caveats according to the law were "a description of an invention, intended to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent was applied for, and operated as a bar to the issue of any patent to any other person regarding the same invention." Caveats lasted one year and were renewable. They are no longer issued. Patent caveats were much less costly than a full patent application and required a less detailed description of the invention. The U.S. Patent Office would note the subject matter of the caveat and hold it in confidentiality. If within the year another inventor filed a patent application for a similar invention, the Patent Office notified the holder of the caveat, who then had three months to submit a formal application.

Antonio Meucci did not renew his caveat after 1874, and Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent in March of 1876. It should be pointed out that a caveat does not guarantee that a patent will be granted, or what the scope of that patent will be. Antonio Meucci was granted fourteen patents for other inventions, which leads me to question the reasons that Meucci did not file a patent application for his telephone, when patents were granted to him in 1872, 1873, 1875, and 1876. Author Tom Farley says, "Like Gray, Meucci claims Bell stole his ideas. To be true, Bell must have falsified every notebook and letter he wrote about coming to his conclusions. That is, it is not enough to steal, you must provide a false story about how you came along on the path to discovery. You must falsify each step toward invention.

Nothing in Bell's writing, character, or his life after 1876 suggest he did so, indeed, in the more than 600 lawsuits which involved him, no one else was credited for inventing the telephone." In 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Resolution 269, "Sense of the House Honoring the Life and Achievements of 19th Century Italian-American Inventor Antonio Meucci." Congressman Vito Fossella who sponsored the bill told the press, "Antonio Meucci was a man of vision whose enormous talents led to the invention of the telephone, Meucci began work on his invention in the mid-1880s, refining and perfecting the telephone during his many years living on Staten Island." However, I do not interpret the carefully worded resolution to mean that Antonio Meucci invented the first telephone or that Bell had stolen Meucci's design and deserved no credit. Are politicians now our historians? The issues between Bell and Meucci were headed to trial and that trial never happened, we do not know what the outcome would have been. Antonio Meucci was an accomplished inventor and deserves our recognition and respect. He patented other inventions.

I respect those who have a different opinion than me. Mine is that several inventors independently worked on a telephone device and that Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent his and was the most successful in bringing the telephone to market. I invite my readers to draw their own conclusions. Meucci Resolution - H.Res.269 Here is a plain English synopsis and extracts with the "whereas" language of the resolution removed. You can read the full version on the Congress.gov website. He immigrated to New York from Cuba and worked on a creating an electronic communications project he called the "teletrofono" that linked different rooms and floors of his house on Staten Island. But he exhausted his savings and couldn't commercialize his invention, " though he demonstrated his invention in 1860 and had a description of it published in New York's Italian language newspaper." "Antonio Meucci never learned English well enough to navigate the complex American business community. He was unable to raise sufficient funds to pay his way through the patent application process, and thus had to settle for a caveat, a one-year renewable notice of an impending patent, which was first filed on December 28, 1871.

Meucci later learned that the Western Union affiliate laboratory reportedly lost his working models, and Meucci, who at this point was living on public assistance, was unable to renew the caveat after 1874. "In March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, who conducted experiments in the same laboratory where Meucci's materials had been stored, was granted a patent and was thereafter credited with inventing the telephone. On January 13, 1887, the Government of the United States moved to annul the patent issued to Bell on the grounds of fraud and misrepresentation, a case that the Supreme Court found viable and remanded for trial. Meucci died in October 1889, the Bell patent expired in January 1893, and the case was discontinued as moot without ever reaching the underlying issue of the true inventor of the telephone entitled to the patent. Finally, if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to Bell." Antonio Meucci - Patents 1859 - US Patent No. 22,739 - candle mold 1860 - US Patent No.

30,180 - candle mold 1862 - US Patent No. 36,192 - lamp burner 1862 - US Patent No. 36,419 - improvement in treating kerosene 1863 - US Patent No. 38,714 - improvement in preparing hydrocarbon liquid 1864 - US Patent No. 44,735 - improved process for removing mineral, gummy, and resinous substances from vegetables 1865 - US Patent No. 46,607 - improved method of making wicks 1865 - US Patent No. 47,068 - improved process for removing mineral, gummy, and resinous substances from vegetables 1866 - US Patent No. 53,165 - improved process for making paper-pulp from wood 1872 - US Patent No. 122,478 - improved method of manufacturing effervescent drinks from fruits 1873 - US Patent No. 142,071 - improvement in sauces for food 1875 - US Patent No.

168,273 - method of testing milk 1876 - US Patent No. 183,062 - hygrometer 1883 - US Patent No. 279,492 - plastic paste Who invented the telephone? - Quora Quora Written Jun 8, 2013 Antonio Meucci is the person who is credited with the invention of this revolutionary communication device. For further details and insights, please refer to : Bell did not invent telephone, US rules ! A June 2012 ruling by the US Congress. Now for most people(I was no exception till i read about it), A lexander Graham Bell would have been the instantaneous answer. Bell did create a "Telephone", but cannot be credited as the first to demonstrate the transmission ( and thereby reception ) of sound/speech via electric current. The race to create a new communication system and the need for one was primarily a byproduct of the following 2 factors:- Inefficiency of the existing Electric Telegraph System to transmit large amounts of information. For instance, in a Morse Telegraph system, to send something as simple as "S.O.S", one would need to send "...---...

" ( dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot, space b/w symbols used for a new word , a time gap. Where dash and dot correspond to different time durations of the pulses, namely Longer=dash, Short=dot.Further reading: Morse code ). Further, a slightly longer message, such as " I love you" would be translated as ".. .-.. --- ...- . -.-- --- ..-" :D . More importantly, a pair of copper cables could transmit only a single message aimed at a particular receiver at a given point of time. Such sequential nature of communication was a major bottleneck in further expansion of Electric Telegraphy, as the logistics/size/economics of the larger systems involved weren't conducive/practical. Eg. An inter city telegraph system usually laid wires along with a country's rail network, and the number of cables had to grow linearly with the number of users. Not to mention the corresponding Transmission and Reception equipment. Faced with these problems in the Telegraph System, and already familiar with the potential of a revolutionary communication system. Old and new players alike decided to solve these issues. A lot of money was invested and many brains were put to the task of coming up with a solution.

The 2 most prominent men in this race were Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray . Bell, a Scott, was an obsessive and a competitive young man, who in 1871, at the age of 24 moved to Boston where he taught deaf people to communicate ( his mother and wife were deaf, Refer to the wiki link) and this is where he began the work that would lead to the Telephone. Gray, in his thirties at that point of time , was based in Ohio and didn't have an "official" educational background, but was a "self taught(refer to the wiki page)" experimentalist. He was backed by the famous Telegraph company, Western Union. In Bell's opinion, the solution to the problem lay hidden in speech to electricity conversion. Though the lines of thinking were correct ( as it became evident later, with the invention of the device) , Bell didn't have a mechanism to "make the current of electricity vary precisely as air pressure during the production of speech", the text within quotes being his thoughts in his words. Elisha Gray on the other hand proposed a similar scheme of sound to electricity, wherein he'd use musical notes of different harmonics to transmit morse code.

Though he didn't quite exactly stumble upon the idea of "speech" to electricity conversion, Gray had a crucial advantage over Bell at that juncture, he had figured out how to convert sound into electricity, albeit accidentally. Meanwhile Bell, who was deeply indulged in finding out a way to convert speech to electricity did in fact succeed in creating the world's first "microphone", Again, accidently. A device that could pick up vibrations, and turn it into electricity (Yeah i know it's obvious :D ). Bell's solution to the problem lay in the use of electromagnets, which could convert the vibrations into electric current, though the system was so insensitive that it could not be applied to speech vibrations, this breakthrough did give Bell the confidence and motivation to pursue now what he thought was the right way to approach the problem. Parallely, Gray successfully conceived his "harmonic telegraph" and displayed it to his financial supporters at the Western Union. To his disappointment, the people from Western Union didn't quite like the idea and thus Gray was forced to the drawing board once again, Only this time, he didn't have the financial support of the group.

This time Gray hit the idea of speech to electricity conversion as a solution to the problem and came up with an ingenious way of picking up human speech. Not having the financial backing from Western Union, Gray still proceeded with the patent application. Gray submitted his Speech to Electricity conversion Scheme to the US Patent office on 14th Feb 1876 ( St. Valentine's day :D ). He used a liquid to achieve this conversion. At the same time, when Bell came to know of Gray's Patent application. He submitted an application with the idea of such a device, and by a striking co-incidence, was received at the US Patents office, by the same Patents officer, on 14th Feb 1876, a couple of hours earlier than Gray's application. Gray's schematic of the device. This is how Bell's paper looks as on 9th Mar 1876. ( After these many coincidences and accidents, i do wonder what Master Oogway had on his mind when he said, " There are no accidents" ;) ) It is alleged that Bell's initial submission to the Patent's office didn't have this diagram.

The Patent officer on that fateful day was Zenas Fisk Wilber, who later on confessed that he did accept bribes and revealed Gray's application to Bell. More on this here: Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy . Gray did sue Bell in the US Supreme Court, but it turned out to be a futile endeavor . Gray died in 1901 largely unknown, and Bell died in 1922 leaving behind a legacy called AT&T. I don't intend to glorify or defame anyone here. Just a description of events as i know it. So, there it is, A brief history of telephone! Written Feb 10, 2014 By 26 October 1861, 15 years previously, the German teacher Philipp Reis presented to members of the "Association of Physics at Frankfurt am Main" his invention: The Telephon. The grant of the patent would probably not take place if the competent patent officials would have classified the Bell's apparatus only as an improvement of the "prior art" because existing technologies can not be patented actually. as the phone itself would be actually not been patentable, the individual improvements, however, already.

Even the submitted telephone based partly on components that do not come from Bell himself. So the microphone was actually the work of Elisha Gray, wrongly Bell was granted a patent and he himself celebrated as "inventor of the telephone," even though he knew about the Invention of Reis and Grey. 110 Views Who Invented the Telephone? Who Invented the Telephone? Christopher Jones comments on the claim that a Black invented the tlephone: "That's odd, I heard that the Germans invented the telephone in the mid 19th century and that it was indeed patented. I guess that Africans must have had a hand in the telephone's creation -- probably by banging bongos in the jungle. But I think that if any WAISer has ever visited the Canary Island of Gomera, he would know that the Spaniards invented a sort of "Whistle-phone," whose short hand code is now being taught in schools. As for revisionism, if it corrects a long held bias based on lies, it can only be for the better. The US has promoted a sort of centrifuge multi-culturalism that has destroyed the fabric of its society and if goes unchecked will probably break up the country.

Like it or not, the US was built by WASPs". From Moscow, Cmeron Sawyer writes: "I have never heard of any Russian inventor of the telephone. Wineburg must be thinking of the television, which a Russian, Zworykin, patented in 1923, calling it, quaintly, the iconoscope. The telephone was, however, apparently really was invented by an Italian, Meucci, who even made certain patent applications for it, and demonstrated working models of it in public some years before Bell. The U.S. Congress actually passed a resolution recognizing Meucci as the inventor of the telephone; see Such cases, where the same idea was worked out in parallel by different inventors, were quite common in those days". RH: How many American history textbooks mention that an Italian, Meucci, invented the telephone? Randy Black gives us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the invention of the telephone.. It is not what American children learn in school: "On June 15th, 2002, the US Congress officially recognized that the Italian inventor Antonio Meucci is to be credited for the invention of the telephone, and not Alexander G.

Bell, as so far claimed. Antonio Meucci was an Italian emigrant who left his native Florence in 1835 for the New World, never to return to Europe. After working in Cuba for some years he arrived in New York in 1850 and became a friend there of Giuseppe Garibaldi, later the unifier of Italy. Meucci lived on Staten Island until his death in poverty at the age of 81. A prolific inventor but a failure as a businessman, Meucci invented a device he called the telectrophone for communicating with his bedridden wife from his workshop. He patented his invention in 1871 but failed to find a commercial backer. Five years later a Scots-born American, Alexander Graham Bell, successfully patented the instrument we now know as the telephone. See and Philip Reis, a self-educated physicist, was born in 1834 and began experimenting with sound devices in his teens. … Reis demonstrated a more professional version of what he termed an "electrical eardrum" before the Physical Society of Frankfort, Germany on October 26, 1861.

The verses of a song were transmitted from the room over a three-hundred-foot line to a hospital room. Thereafter, there were many other public demonstrations of improved versions of the telephon, a word Reis coined. The demonstrations started 15 years before Bell took out a patent for a similar device. The presentation in 1861 was the first public demonstration of the successful conversion of electrical into auditory waves. On March 22, 1876, a New York Times editorial entitled "The Telephone," lauded Philip Reis as its inventor. Bell was not mentioned in the editorial; evidently the writer had never heard of him. Bell later claimed to have transmitted his fabled message to Watson 12 days before that editorial appeared. In 1878, two years after Bell took out a patent for an "improvement" on the telephone, European physicists erected a monument to Philip Reis as its inventor. German textbooks credited Reis with the invention until the Nazis expunged Reis’s name from German literature. The name has now been only partially reinstated. See. " RH: I assume Reis was Jewish.

Vetsi Ozcan of Turkey comments on Christoper Jones' report on the whistle phone in the CAnary Islands: "it reminded me of a small region on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. The same method of whistle signaling is used there. I believe the mountainous region of this coast is quite similar to the geography of Gomera. I really am not sure if they still keep whistling, after the wide spread distribution of mobile phones, but I am sure they were using it as late as mid 1990s. I wonder if there has ever been any research on this and other unusual methods of communication". George Sassoon says: "Was it the "Spaniards" who invented the Gomera whistle-phone, or was it the aboriginal inhabitants (Guanches?), later wiped out by the Spaniards? I saw somewhere that a whistle-language also exists in Latin America -perhaps among survivors of the Gomera massacre. Perhaps the blacks, to give them their due, invented the telephone system consisting of two tin cans connected by a bit of string" RH: The Guanches were "absorbed" by the Spaniards who conquered the ialands at th end of the fifteenth century..

I can find nothing on the origin of the whistle phone. The Blacks certainly did not invent the tin can, and I see no reason for crediting them with the discovery of this kind of communication. Early forms of communication consisted of of using hills on which fires were lit or drums were banged. However, we should limit our discussion yo the telephone as it is commonly understood. Who really invented the telephone? HOME > Historical Information > Who Really Invented the Telephone? Who Really Invented the Telephone? Well, that may depend on your ethnic heritage or the country you live in to some degree. Because it is possible for more than one person to come up with the same idea in roughly the same moment in time, there could have been more than one inventor of the telephone. Although Alexander Graham Bell is considered the inventor of the telephone in the USA, Canada, and Scotland, other countries that had no historical affiliation with him tend to look for possible inventors of their own ethnic background or their own country as THE inventor of the telephone. Several web sites address this never-ending debate and it is doubtful that there is any way of proving who really came up with the idea and put it into practice first.

Even here in the USA, many court battles were fought between Bell and several challengers to his right to be called the inventor of the telephone. At the end of this page are some links to external web sites that discuss some of these other contenders. But first, read the following section from a book titled " The History of the Telephone " BY HERBERT N. CASSON - First edition - A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago - Published: 1910. The following paragraphs from the book give an account of some of the court battles that Bell went through in defending his claim as the inventor of the telephone: "After Gray, the weightiest challenger who came against Bell was Professor Amos E. Dolbear, of Tufts College. He, like Gray, had written a letter of applause to Bell in 1877. "I congratulate you, sir," he said, "upon your very great invention, and I hope to see it supplant all forms of existing telegraphs, and that you will be successful in obtaining the wealth and honor which is your due." But one year later, Dolbear came to view with an opposition telephone.

It was not an imitation of Bell's, he insisted, but an improvement upon an electrical device made by a German named Philip Reis, in 1861. Thus there appeared upon the scene the so-called "Reis telephone," which was not a telephone at all, in any practical sense, but which served well enough for nine years or more as a weapon to use against the Bell patents. Poor Philip Reis himself, the son of a baker in Frankfort, Germany, had hoped to make a telephone, but he had failed. His machine was operated by a "make-and-break" current, and so could not carry the infinitely delicate vibrations made by the human voice. It could transmit the pitch of a sound, but not the QUALITY. At its best, it could carry a tune, but never at any time a spoken sentence. Reis, in his later years, realized that his machine could never be used for the transmission of conversation; and in a letter to a friend he tells of a code of signals that he has invented. Bell had once, during his three years of experimenting, made a Reis machine, although at that time he had not seen one. But he soon threw it aside, as of no practical value.

As a teacher of acoustics, Bell knew that the one indispensable requirement of a telephone is that it shall transmit the WHOLE of a sound, and not merely the pitch of it. Such scientists as Lord Kelvin, Joseph Henry, and Edison had seen the little Reis instrument years before Bell invented the telephone; but they regarded it as a mere musical toy. It was "not in any sense a speaking telephone," said Lord Kelvin. And Edison, when trying to put the Reis machine in the most favorable light, admitted humorously that when he used a Reis transmitter he generally "knew what was coming; and knowing what was coming, even a Reis transmitter, pure and simple, reproduces sounds which seem almost like that which was being transmitted; but when the man at the other end did not know what was coming, it was very seldom that any word was recognized." In the course of the Dolbear lawsuit, a Reis machine was brought into court, and created much amusement. It was able to squeak, but not to speak. Experts and professors wrestled with it in vain. It refused to transmit one intelligible sentence. "It CAN speak, but it WON'T," explained one of Dolbear's lawyers.

It is now generally known that while a Reis machine, when clogged and out of order, would transmit a word or two in an imperfect way, it was built on wrong lines. It was no more a telephone than a wagon is a sleigh, even though it is possible to chain the wheels and make them slide for a foot or two. Said Judge Lowell, in rendering his famous decision: "A century of Reis would never have produced a speaking telephone by mere improvement of construction. It was left for Bell to discover that the failure was due not to workmanship but to the principle which was adopted as the basis of what had to be done. . . . Bell discovered a new art--that of transmitting speech by electricity, and his claim is not as broad as his invention. . . . To follow Reis is to fail; but to follow Bell is to succeed." After the victory over Dolbear, the Bell stock went soaring skywards; and the higher it went, the greater were the number of infringers and blowers of stock bubbles. To bait the Bell Company became almost a national sport. Any sort of claimant, with any sort of wild tale of prior invention, could find a speculator to support him.

On they came, a motley array, "some in rags, some on nags, and some in velvet gowns." One of them claimed to have done wonders with an iron hoop and a file in 1867; a second had a marvelous table with glass legs; a third swore that he had made a telephone in 1860, but did not know what it was until he saw Bell's patent; and a fourth told a vivid story of having heard a bullfrog croak via a telegraph wire which was strung into a certain cellar in Racine, in 1851. This comic opera phase came to a head in the famous Drawbaugh case, which lasted for nearly four years, and filled ten thousand pages with its evidence. Having failed on Reis, the German, the opponents of Bell now brought forward an American inventor named Daniel Drawbaugh, and opened up a noisy newspaper campaign. To secure public sympathy for Drawbaugh, it was said that he had invented a complete telephone and switchboard before 1876, but was in such "utter and abject poverty" that he could not get himself a patent.

Five hundred witnesses were examined; and such a general turmoil was aroused that the Bell lawyers were compelled to take the attack seriously, and to fight back with every pound of ammunition they possessed. The fact about Drawbaugh is that he was a mechanic in a country village near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was ingenious but not inventive; and loved to display his mechanical skill before the farmers and villagers. He was a subscriber to The Scientific American; and it had become the fixed habit of his life to copy other people's inventions and exhibit them as his own. He was a trailer of inventors. More than forty instances of this imitative habit were shown at the trial, and he was severely scored by the judge, who accused him of "deliberately falsifying the facts." His ruling passion of imitation, apparently, was not diminished by the loss of his telephone claims, as he came to public view again in 1903 as a trailer of Marconi.

Drawbaugh's defeat sent the Bell stock up once more, and brought on a Xerxes' army of opposition which called itself the "Overland Company." Having learned that no one claimant could beat Bell in the courts, this company massed the losers together and came forward with a scrap-basket full of patents. Several powerful capitalists undertook to pay the expenses of this adventure. Wires were strung; stock was sold; and the enterprise looked for a time so genuine that when the Bell lawyers asked for an injunction against it, they were refused. This was as hard a blow as the Bell people received in their eleven years of litigation; and the Bell stock tumbled thirty-five points in a few days. Infringing companies sprang up like gourds in the night. And all went merrily with the promoters until the Overland Company was thrown out of court, as having no evidence, except "the refuse and dregs of former cases-the heel-taps found in the glasses at the end of the frolic." But even after this defeat for the claimants, the frolic was not wholly ended.

They next planned to get through politics what they could not get through law; they induced the Government to bring suit for the annulment of the Bell patents. It was a bold and desperate move, and enabled the promoters of paper companies to sell stock for several years longer. The whole dispute was re-opened, from Gray to Drawbaugh. Every battle was re-fought; and in the end, of course, the Government officials learned that they were being used to pull telephone chestnuts out of the fire. The case was allowed to die a natural death, and was informally dropped in 1896. In all, the Bell Company fought out thirteen lawsuits that were of national interest, and five that were carried to the Supreme Court in Washington. It fought out five hundred and eighty-seven other lawsuits of various natures; and with the exception of two trivial contract suits, IT NEVER LOST A CASE." A news story from TELECOM Digest (link was dead on Aug. 26, 2002) follows: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:57:00 EDT Volume 20 : Issue 288 Editor: Patrick A.

Townson Imagining the Internet The Development of the Telephone As with many innovations, the idea for the telephone came along far sooner than it was brought to reality. While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876. Bell began his research in 1874 and had financial backers who gave him the best business plan for bringing it to market. In 1877-78, the first telephone line was constructed, the first switchboard was created and the first telephone exchange was in operation. Three years later, almost 49,000 telephones were in use. In 1880, Bell (in the photo below) merged this company with others to form the American Bell Telephone Company and in 1885 American Telegraph and Telephone Company (AT&T) was formed; it dominated telephone communications for the next century. At one point in time, Bell System employees purposely denigrated the U.S.

telephone system to drive down stock prices of all phone companies and thus make it easier for Bell to acquire smaller competitors. By 1900 there were nearly 600,000 phones in Bell's telephone system; that number shot up to 2.2 million phones by 1905, and 5.8 million by 1910. In 1915 the transcontinental telephone line began operating. By 1907, AT&T had a near monopoly on phone and telegraph service, thanks to its purchase of Western Union. Its president, Theodore Vail, urged at the time that a monopoly could most efficiently operate the nation's far-flung communications network. At the urging of the public and AT&T competitors, the government began to investigate the company for anti-trust violations, thus forcing the 1913 Kingsbury Commitment, an agreement between AT&T vice president Nathan Kingsbury and the office of the U.S. Attorney General. Under this commitment, AT&T agreed to divest itself of Western Union and provide long-distance services to independent phone exchanges.

During World War I, the government nationalized telephone and telegraph lines in the United States from June 1918 to July 1919, when, after a joint resolution of Congress, President Wilson issued an order putting them under the direction of the U.S. Post Office. A year later, the systems were returned to private ownership, AT&T resumed its monopolistic hold, and by 1934 the government again acted, this time agreeing to allow it to operate as a "regulated monopoly" under the jurisdiction of the FCC. Public utility commissions in state and local jurisdictions were appointed regulators of AT&T and the nation's independent phone companies, while the FCC regulated long-distance services conducted across state lines. They set the rates the phone companies could charge and determined what services and equipment each could offer. This stayed in effect until AT&T's forced divestiture in 1984, the conclusion of a U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust suit that had been filed in 1974.

The all-powerful company had become popularly known and disparaged as "Ma Bell." AT&T's local operations were divided into seven independent Regional Bell Operating Companies, known as the "Baby Bells." AT&T became a long-distance-services company. By 1948, the 30 millionth phone was connected in the United States; by the 1960s, there were more than 80 million phone hookups in the U.S. and 160 million in the world; by 1980, there were more than 175 million telephone subscriber lines in the U.S. In 1993, the first digital cellular network went online in Orlando, Florida; by 1995 there were 25 million cellular phone subscribers, and that number exploded at the turn of the century, with digital cellular phone service expected to replace land-line phones for most U.S. customers by as early as 2010. World Changes Due to the Telephone Within 50 years of its invention, the telephone had become an indispensable tool in the United States.

In the late 19th century, people raved about the telephone's positive aspects and ranted about what they anticipated would be negatives. Their key points, recorded by Ithiel de Sola Pool in his 1983 book "Forecasting the Telephone," mirror nearly precisely what was later predicted about the impact of the internet. For example, people said the telephone would: help further democracy; be a tool for grassroots organizers; lead to additional advances in networked communications; allow social decentralization, resulting in a movement out of cities and more flexible work arrangements; change marketing and politics; alter the ways in which wars are fought; cause the postal service to lose business; open up new job opportunities; allow more public feedback; make the world smaller, increasing contact between peoples of all nations and thus fostering world peace; increase crime and aid criminals; be an aid for physicians, police, fire, and emergency workers; be a valuable tool for journalists; bring people closer together, decreasing loneliness and building new communities; inspire a decline in the art of writing; have an impact on language patterns and introduce new words; and someday lead to an advanced form of the transmission of intelligence. Privacy was also a major concern.

As is the case with the Internet, the telephone worked to improve privacy while simultaneously leaving people open to invasions of their privacy. In the beginning days of the telephone, people would often have to journey to the local general store or some other central point to be able to make and receive calls. Most homes weren't wired together, and eavesdroppers could hear you conduct your personal business as you used a public phone. Switchboard operators who connected the calls would also regularly invade people's privacy. The early house-to-house phone systems were often "party lines" on which a number of families would receive calls, and others were free to listen in and often chose to do so. Today, while most homes are wired and people can travel freely, conducting their phone conversations wirelessly, wiretapping and other surveillance methods can be utilized to listen in on their private business. People's privacy can also be interrupted by unwanted phone calls from telemarketers and others who wish to profit in some way - just as Internet e-mail accounts receive unwanted sales pitches, known as "spam." Yet, the invention of the telephone also worked to increase privacy in many ways.

It permitted people to exchange information without having to put it in writing, and a call on the phone came to replace such intrusions on domestic seclusion as unexpected visits from relatives or neighbors and the pushy patter of door-to-door salesmen. The same could be said for the Internet - privacy has been enhanced in some ways because e-mail and instant messaging have reduced the frequency of the jangling interruptions previously dished out by our telephones. President Rutherford B. Hayes to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 on viewing the telephone for the first time: “That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?” Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000 in 1876, when he was struggling with the business. An account that is believed by some to be apocryphal, but still recounted in many telephone histories states that the committee appointed to investigate the offer filed the following report: "We do not see that this device will be ever capable of sending recognizable speech over a distance of several miles. Messer Hubbard and Bell want to install one of their 'telephone devices' in every city. The idea is idiotic on the face of it.

Furthermore, why would any person want to use this ungainly and impractical device when he can send a messenger to the telegraph office and have a clear written message sent to any large city in the United States? … Mr. G.G. Hubbard's fanciful predictions, while they sound rosy, are based on wild-eyed imagination and lack of understanding of the technical and economic facts of the situation, and a posture of ignoring the obvious limitations of his device, which is hardly more than a toy ... This device is inherently of no use to us. We do not recommend its purchase." As reported in the book "Bell" by Robert V. Bruce, Kate Field, a British reporter who knew Bell, predicted in 1878 that eventually: "While two persons, hundreds of miles apart, are talking together, they will actually see each other." Sir William Preece, chief engineer for the British Post Office, 1878, as reported in "The Telephone in a Changing World" by Marion May Dilts: "There are conditions in America which necessitate the use of such instruments more than here.

Here we have a superabundance of messengers, errand boys and things of that kind … The absence of servants has compelled America to adopt communications systems for domestic purposes." AT&T chief engineer and Electrical Review writer John J. Carty projected in his "Prophets Column" in 1891: "A system of telephony without wires seems one of the interesting possibilities, and the distance on the earth through which it is possible to speak is theoretically limited only by the curvation of the earth." Carty also wrote: "Someday we will build up a world telephone system, making necessary to all peoples the use of a common language or common understanding of languages, which will join all the people of the earth into one brotherhood. There will be heard throughout the earth a great voice coming out of the ether which will proclaim, 'Peace on earth, good will towards men.'" In the 1912 article "The Future Home Theatre" in The Independent, S.C. Gilfillan wrote: "There are two mechanical contrivances … each of which bears in itself the power to revolutionize entertainment, doing for it what the printing press did for books. They are the talking motion picture and the electric vision apparatus with telephone.

Either one will enable millions of people to see and hear the same performance simultaneously .. or successively from kinetoscope and phonographic records … These inventions will become cheap enough to be … in every home … You will have the home theatre of 1930, oh ye of little faith." Who Invented the Cell Phone? Who Invented the Cell Phone? Dr. Martin Cooper is the person credited with both inventing the modern cell phone as well as making the first cell phone call in New York City, New York in April 1973. A related invention is the cave radio phone invented by Nathan Stubblefield who was awarded a patent for the idea in the early 20th Century (1908). Since his work does not provide the technology behind modern cell phones, he is not given credit for inventing the cell phone. History of the Telephone Alexander Graham Bell is given credit by historians with the invention of the traditional telephone in 1876. Less than three decades later, on December 23rd, 2000, Reginald Fessenden was able to make the world’s first wireless phone call. His invention used radio waves to transmit communication via voice between radio towers.

His work provided the technical background later used in broadcast technology. It would also provide the conceptual basis for future network and mobile phone tower development. As the world emerged from WW2 , engineer William Rae Young (Bell Labs engineer that was part of AT&T), made the proposal of setting up radio towers in a hexagonal pattern to support a network of phones. His work incorporated transmitters designed to transport calls to destinations on the network and included the idea of handoffs between towers based on the end-user’s location. Despite the concept being technically sound, it would take another 10+ years before additional advances in mobile phone technology to be realized. In order to address a growing demand by consumers for some type of mobile communication technology, there were a few companies in this timeframe that sold radio telephones. These early phones operated very similar to hand held radios but relied upon an installed network to operate. The network could only support a few simultaneous calls at a time. If the person making a call could not access the network, he or she would have to wait for someone to finish their call before making an attempt. The setup of the network reduced privacy to almost nil; however, and the phones were heavy coming in at 80 or more pounds.

What Came before the Cell Phone? Before cell phones as we know them came into existence, “ Hexagonal Cells ,” were used by smaller numbers of consumers in the later portion of the 1950s. These early radio telephones were created by AT&T and Bell Labs. They were primarily used by the rich and did not see widespread adoption due to their size and cost. Before the Hexagonal Cell was invented, radio telephones were the primary method to wirelessly communicate by government agencies, the military, and large businesses. The legacy radio phones required a backpack that would then transmit the phone call to a nearby base station. Today, the hexagonal cell phones are referred to with the relatively new label of “zero generation phone.” 1G Mobile Phones When Dr. Martin Cooper placed the world’s first cell phone call to Dr. Joel Engel on April 3rd, 1973, the technology used by the device became known as a 1G or first generation mobile phone. This first cell phone weighed approximately two pounds and was named the Motoroloa Dyna-Tac . When Dr. Cooper made the call, Dr.

Engel was standing on the street near the Manhattan Hilton hotel while there were a fair number of media personnel and press nearby to observe the event. After making the call, the first cell phone patent was granted on October 17th, 1973. After Dr. Cooper’s demonstration, there were be several companies who would develop cell phone networks and release cell phones of their own in the subsequent years. It would take several decades after Dr. Cooper’s demonstration; however, before there would be a significant decrease in the use of traditional land lines. 2G Mobile Phones Mobile phone technology would not see another significant leap in capability until the advent of 2G mobile phones. Some of the early second generation cell phone networks included IS-95, IDEN, and GSM. The early GSM networks started seeing significant use and deployment in 1991. 2G phone networks supported faster mobile phone to network connections and also included digital circuit switched transmissions that supported a higher quality of service for the end user. In addition to the improvements in technology, mobile phone companies were able to significantly reduce the physical size of the cell phone making it easier for customers to carry the phone with them.

Second generation mobile phones took advantage of improvements in chip design to reduce the size of the phone(s). Chip manufacturers were able to produce smaller chips that had an increased capacity for installation of additional circuitry resulting in an overall smaller phone. Combined with an increase in mobile phone tower power output, there was a significant increase in overall capability of the devices. 2G phones were also the first to support SMS texting capability in the early-mid 1990s as well as ring tones. SMS Text History The concept of SMS texting arose in the 1980s when discussions on what services to support in the GSM mobile phone standard were underway. Many of the engineers and scientists working on the standard believed that a messaging system would be the best method to alert individual users for items such as incoming voicemail, etc. When work on the GSM standard started to get to the publication point in the mid-1980s, there were parallel discussions on creating a messaging standard. As a result, the IDEG (Implementation of Data and Telematic Services Expert Group) was formed in 1987 and was tasked with creating a standard for a messaging system for use on GSM.

Just five years later at the end of 1992 (December), Neil Papworth would send the first commercial text message from a computer to Richard Jarvis’s Vodafone on the GSM network in the U.K. The first commercial message was “Merry Christmas.” Prior to this, Riku Pihkonen is credited with sending a text message in 1992 from a Nokia GSM phone. After these first texts, most GSM phones would include SMS texting capability over the 1990s; however, it would take until 2000 for the popularity of the texting format to take off. This was primarily due to the incompatibility of SMS text across different mobile phone network carriers. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, SMS text would grow to be supported on most mobile networks to include TDMA and CDMA. The use continued to increase to the point of there being more than 1.5 trillion text messages sent by the end of 2009 in a given year. Today, mobile phone users are able to interchangeably use SMS, or MMS messaging that is capable of including file attachments, pictures, and even short video clips!

3G Mobile Phones Shortly after second generation mobile phones started to see widespread use, industry started to work on the third generation (3G) mobile phone standard. The 3G standard leverages wideband frequency carriers as well as a CDMA air interface . They are able to support much higher speed data applications with maximum speed ratings of two megabits. The networks deployed or upgraded to support the 3G standard were designed to support wireless data rates of up to 144 kilobits per second. The first country to deploy a 3G network was Japan in May of 2001. The network would later see commercial launch by NTT DoCoMo in the fall of 2001 (October). By 2002, there were third generation mobile networks that leveraged CDMA2000 technology in South Korea. Due to the commercial success in Asia, third generation networks started to be launched in 2003 in Europe in Italy and Great Britain. In the United States, the first commercial 3G mobile network was deployed by Monet Mobile Networks but was eventually shut down. Verizon Wireless would launch the second 3G network in the U.S.

in July of 2002 using CDMA2000 1x EVDO . Despite the significant improvements in speed and quality of service, the adoption rate of 3G technology world-wide was relatively slow. Since these networks do not use the same frequencies that the more established (at the time) 2G networks leveraged, mobile network operators had to license new frequencies and deploy new network infrastructure to support 3G. By the end of 2007; however, there were 190 third generation cell phone networks in operation in 40 countries as well as 154 HSDPA networks in 71 countries across the world. One of the technology improvements which increased the popularity of 3G was the advent of the smartphone. Combining the capabilities of a PDA with a cell phone, the demand to be connected at much faster data rates not realized on 2G networks helped encourage mobile companies to continue to invest in the newer technology. LTE / 4G Mobile Phones The succeeding technology to third generation cell phones is the 4G mobile phone. Another common term used to refer to the succeeding generation of technology is Long Term Evolution.

Although phones that implement LTE have demonstrable improvements over 3G phones, not all LTE devices comply with the full 4G standard. As a result, although they may be marketed as 4G devices, they likely do not provide the full spectrum of performance improvements guaranteed by the standard. LTE supports a significant improvement in data download and upload speeds as well as other improved capabilities for mobile phones and devices. The majority of major mobile phone providers began providing support for LTE during 2009 . They have been making steady improvements to legacy third generation phone networks to support the newer technologies. One of the most fundamental differences between a 4G or LTE mobile phone and the older 2G/3G devices is that the newer phones are IP-based. Additionally, LTE phones are assigned their own IP address which help mobile phone networks provide an increase in overall capability for the devices. Additional improvements include a max upload speed of 50 Mbs, 100 Mbps download speed, a scalable carrier bandwidth, as well as handoff between 4G and legacy phone towers. What are the Advantages of 4G Cell Phones Over 3G Phones?

The single biggest advantage of a 4G mobile phone over 3G technology is the vast improvement in network bandwidth and capacity. For example, on a 3G network a mobile user would likely require a WiFi connection in order to place a usable, clear video call via Skype or other equivalent technology. On a 4G phone, the majority of mobile providers are able to support live video over the cell network. Additionally, 4G mobiles are able to include more “always on” services such as GPS, location services, etc. 4G also includes support for legacy 3G phones; however, the older mobiles are not able to realize the improvements in data down/upload speeds. Finally, the mobile phone architecture is cheaper to deploy and maintain on the part of the cell phone companies. Once the underlying switching system is changed out to support flat IP addressing, the overall cost of a 4G network is less than for that of legacy 3G or 2G. Why are LTE Phones Marketed as 4G? Based on lessons learned over the previous decades of cell phone technology adoption and consumer behavior, there has been a rush by mobile phone companies to gain market share for 4G mobile devices.

Consequently, there has been an ensuing debate on what really qualifies a mobile phone or other device as being a true 4G device since LTE does not fully support the 4G standard. Although all major providers are in progress of releasing true 4G networks, most have been guilty of marketing existing HSPA+ or 3G+ networks as 4G since the networks support many of the improvements promised by the 4G standard. The mobile phones for many carriers will actually display a “4G” network in these cases even though full network upgrades have not been completed. Many devices have actually stopped displaying the “4G” or “3G” indication to the end user in order to avoid continued debate on the matter at the time of this writing. What is the Current Status of 5G Mobile Phones? At the time of this writing, there has not been a fifth generation mobile phone standard developed. It is believed that when a 5G standard is developed, that it will be focused more on ensuring quality of service to the end user than on drastic improvements in speed. There will be some improvement in the speed area, but it is expected that this will be more due to improvements in hardware and other supporting technologies.

The focus on quality of service is based on the expected increase in total number of connected devices in a home by the time the 5G standard is expected to be released and adopted. Despite the absence of a 5G standard, Samsung publicly stated that the company had released the world’s first 5G phone on May 12th, 2013. The claims are made due to the increase in maximum speed of 1.056 Gbit/sec at a range of up two kilometers. Other related announcements for 5G include a major announcement by Israel and India in July of 2013 that the countries have agreed to work together on creating and adopting 5G technologies. Follow Us! Cell phone technology is based on radio technology that was developed from the 1940’s onward. ... hine AWESOME WEBSITE! I FRICKEN LOVE IT OMG OMG OMG SOOOOOO HELPFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! harry yes i do spaz much rose I came with an invention for cell phones too. It can save lives of thousand of people who uses it.

green Inventor of the Gamma-Electric Cell Aradin Oronde rity. The inventor of the Cellular phone is Henry Sampson, Jr. Sampson is an African-American from Jackson, Mississippi. He attended Morehouse and transferred to Purdue. He received an MS in Engineering from the University of California. He was awarded an MS in Nuclear Engineering from Illinois and his Ph.D from Illinois. Sampson is the first African-American to receive a Ph.D in Nuclear Engineering. In 1971, Sampson was awarded a patent for the “gamma-electric cell.” This technology was used in the cellular phone. Hopefully, Dr. Sampson was well rewarded for his efforts. He holds the patent for his discovery #: 3,591,860. Check it out on Google. Pass this information on. (Barbershops and Beauty Salons are great places to discuss this info). During the week, let others know about Dr. Sampson.

This is a “Breakdown the stereotype campaign.” Byron Perhaps Aradin, you can then explain why there is no reference to cell phones, radio phones or any phones for that matter in the patent you cite, nor is there any credible evidence that the gamma-electric cell is employed as a component of the cell phone infrastructure. Instead of posting the contents of Internet Email Rumors, your time might better be spent working to better the human race by actually contributing to society rather than detracting from it. Observing Byron, The patent number given will give you the necessary proof you are asking for. There is a way to discuss and debate without being condescending. Keller Dr. Sampson is a brilliant man and inventor, but none of his inventions have anything to do with cell phones. All of his work has been in the field of nuclear engineering and includes the invention of a device called a “gamma-electrical cell.” This is NOT a cell phone. In this case, cell simply means “a small compartment.” Not every important invention has to do with a consumer product! Alaha Patera What is wrong with you playa??? dis be da moz amazzzin sight eva!!! thanks for da ‘a’ on ma english report, dawg!

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Fuck Americans hehehehe chad moore wow so this man made the phone, i mean h 1st phone i wonder how because you know what they say bout old ppl lol patrice by the way im missing some of my teeth so if i put my pic up smileing please dont say anything, i was punched & i stink lol Sumaiya soooooooooo much helpful……………thanks 2 them who made this.and I like 2 thank my frnd,,because of her I have visited this………. Jeff Thanks to the developers of this site. Kindly phase out some of the comments which are misleading. This is not where ill-thinking people should post nonsenses. Ariel Christina Marilyn Snow thx it was very useful!!! however, wouldn`t it be interesting if you write more pecificlly how back cell phones can trace? Shawn Charles E. Alden invented the cell phone in 1906. owen let the history inspire us to do more rajani hi, i want to no who invented cell phone Ajay Khule Hi Rajani, It is already mentioned in the article. Dr. Martin Cooper invented cell phone and was also know as the first person to make a call on a cell phone.

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Question: Who is generally credited with having invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell