


He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of electronic speech. The patent caveat lasted a year before it had to be renewed, and a door opened up for Bell when Meucci was unable to renew it in 1874. Who really invented the telephone Try 3 issues of BBC Science Focus Magazine for 5 Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham-Bell usually gets all the credit, but there are a few more names that might ring a bell. Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. Meucci had applied for what was called a patent caveat, an outdated licensing application that let an inventor mark a place for an invention in hopes of getting everything together to file for a full-on patent in the future. According to The Guardian, this action proved to some that Bell outright stole Meucci's invention and passed it off as his own without having done any of the tinkering or chin scratching himself. Congress passed a resolution in 2002 recognizing the life and achievements of Antonio Meucci, an Italian-born inventor whose "teletrofono" most likely did give Bell an idea or two. Tivadar Pusks proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. 134 135 Marian Hubbard Bell (18801962) who was referred to as 'Daisy'. Antonio Meucci, 1854, constructed telephone-like devices. 132 133 They had four children: Elsie May Bell (18781964) who married Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor of National Geographic fame. His invention was an instrument that included a flexible. From 1876, he would sign his name 'Alec Bell'. Very much like the two-soup-can toys you made as a child, Hooke found that sound could be sent over a wire or string from a mouthpiece on one side to an earpiece on the other. While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a. The answer to this question has been argued ever since Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent application for the telephone in 1876. Having invented a telephone (date uncertain) and in 1866/7 formed The Peoples Telephone Company. At least that's what some historians and the Italian-American community said was the truth after the U.S. 1672: Robert Hooke created the first acoustic telephone in 1672.
