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      • Philipp Reis, 1861, constructed the first telephone, today called the Reis telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876.
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  2. Nov 9, 2009 · In 1876, after years of experimenting with sound devices, Alexander Graham Bell was issued the first patent for the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell made the first long-distance...

  3. Alexander Graham Bell ( / ˈɡreɪ.əm /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.

  4. Antonio Meucci, 1854, constructed telephone-like devices. Philipp Reis, 1861, constructed the first telephone, today called the Reis telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876.

  5. Apr 19, 2024 · Alexander Graham Bell, who patented the telephone in 1876, inaugurating the 1,520-km (944-mile) telephone link between New York City and Chicago on October 18, 1892. (more) Gardiner Hubbard organized a group that established the Bell Telephone Company in July 1877 to commercialize Bell’s telephone.

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  6. May 21, 2021 · Mary Bellis. Updated on May 21, 2021. In the 1870s, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically. Both men rushed their respective designs for these prototype telephones to the patent office within hours of each other.

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  7. Apr 3, 2014 · (1847-1922) Who Was Alexander Graham Bell? Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell...

  8. Bell's March 10, 1876, laboratory notebook entry describing his first successful experiment with the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell had pioneered a system called visible speech, developed by his father, to teach deaf children. In 1872 Bell founded a school in Boston, Massachusetts, to train teachers of the deaf.

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