Who invented the telephone? A new book questioning historical information
It is widely known that the inventor of the telephone was Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell, but a new book calls this fact into question.
And the scientific "Life Science" website asked: Was it really Graham Bell who invented the phone, or did he steal someone else's achievement?
The site says that the phone has become an essential part of daily life for most people, but who is the person who should be referred to as the inventor of this device?
In paraphrasing, Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the inventor of the telephone and the first person to make a telephone call on March 10, 1876, when he said to his assistant Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson. Come here. I want to see you."
But author Ioan Moros, in his recent book How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Explorers Who Shaped Our Future?, argues that innovations are rarely the result of one person.
He added, "Much (nearly all) of the electronic inventions of the nineteenth century are disputed, with many inventors claiming credit for solving the main problems first."
He gave examples of this, saying that Charles Wheatstone and William Fothergill Cook jointly patented the first electromagnetic telegraph, and then got into a dispute over who was credited with the invention.
