The Telephone and Its Several Inventors

The Telephone and Its Several Inventors
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780786426096
ISBN-13 : 0786426098
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Telephone and Its Several Inventors by : Lewis Coe

On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office issued to a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell what is arguably the most valuable patent ever: entitled "improvements in telegraphy," in truth it secured for Bell the basic principles involved in a telephone. On the same day that Bell filed his patent application, a caveat (a preliminary patent document) was filed by Elisha Gray. This coincidence sparked the first of many debates over whether Bell was the true inventor of the telephone. In the early 1860s Johann Phillipp Reis developed a version of the instrument, but his claims against Bell were hampered by the bungling of his lawyers in demonstrating his instrument in court. This work is a first look at the many men who developed the telephone and an examination of their claims against Bell's patent. A lay description of the phone is also provided, as well as a history of the development of the telephone system.

The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876

The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9780786462438
ISBN-13 : 0786462434
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876 by : A. Edward Evenson

The invention of the telephone is a subject of great controversy, central is which is the patent issued to Alexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876. Many problems and questions surround this patent, not the least of which was its collision in the Patent Office with a strangely similar invention by archrival Elisha Gray. A flood of lawsuits followed the patent's issue; at one point the government attempted to annul Bell's patent and launched an investigation into how it was granted. From court testimony, contemporary accounts, government documents, and the participants' correspondence, a fascinating story emerges. More than just a tale of rivalry between two inventors, it is the story of how a small group of men made Bell's patent the cornerstone for an emerging telephone monopoly. This book recounts the little-known story in full, relying on original documents (most never before published) to preserve the flavor of the debate and provide an authentic account. Among the several appendices is the "lost copy" of Bell's original patent, the document that precipitated the charge of fraud against the Bell Telephone Company.

The Multiple Telegraph

The Multiple Telegraph
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89067662429
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Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Multiple Telegraph by : Alexander Graham Bell

The History of the Telephone

The History of the Telephone
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433020507400
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Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The History of the Telephone by : Herbert Newton Casson

Fernsprechtechnik, Telefonie (Technik).

Who Invented the Telephone?

Who Invented the Telephone?
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Publisher : Lerner Classroom
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 9781541512108
ISBN-13 : 1541512103
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Who Invented the Telephone? by : Susan E. Hamen

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone or did he? Inventor Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was also working on a telephone at the same time. Watch Meucci and Bell race to be first to the invention finish line.

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell
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Publisher : New Word City
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9781612309569
ISBN-13 : 1612309569
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Alexander Graham Bell by : Edwin S. Grosvenor

". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." – New York Times Book Review Here, Edwin Grosvenor, American Heritage's publisher and Bell's great-grandson, tells the dramatic story of the race to invent the telephone and how Bell's patent for it would become the most valuable ever issued. He also writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes, including the first to fly in Canada. And he examines Bell's humanitarian efforts, including support for women's suffrage, civil rights, and speeches about what he warned would be a "greenhouse effect" of pollution causing global warming.

Great Inventors and Their Inventions

Great Inventors and Their Inventions
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433016876074
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Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Great Inventors and Their Inventions by : Frank Puterbaugh Bachman

Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight, recording and others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes and produced something that really worked. It is a fascinating account for younger listeners.

Invented by Law

Invented by Law
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780674744547
ISBN-13 : 0674744543
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Invented by Law by : Christopher Beauchamp

Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876 stands as one of the great touchstones of American technological achievement. Bringing a new perspective to this history, Invented by Law examines the legal battles that raged over Bell’s telephone patent, likely the most consequential patent right ever granted. To a surprising extent, Christopher Beauchamp shows, the telephone was as much a creation of American law as of scientific innovation. Beauchamp reconstructs the world of nineteenth-century patent law, replete with inventors, capitalists, and charlatans, where rival claimants and political maneuvering loomed large in the contests that erupted over new technologies. He challenges the popular myth of Bell as the telephone’s sole inventor, exposing that story’s origins in the arguments advanced by Bell’s lawyers. More than anyone else, it was the courts that anointed Bell father of the telephone, granting him a patent monopoly that decisively shaped the American telecommunications industry for a century to come. Beauchamp investigates the sources of Bell’s legal primacy in the United States, and looks across the Atlantic, to Britain, to consider how another legal system handled the same technology in very different ways. Exploring complex questions of ownership and legal power raised by the invention of important new technologies, Invented by Law recovers a forgotten history with wide relevance for today’s patent crisis.

Scientists and Inventors

Scientists and Inventors
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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000043318551
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Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Scientists and Inventors by :

Alphabetical articles profile the life and work of notable scientists and inventors from antiquity to the present, beginning with Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and concluding with the Wright Brothers.

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell
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Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 076601858X
ISBN-13 : 9780766018587
Rating : 4/5 (8X Downloads)

Synopsis Alexander Graham Bell by : Carin T. Ford

A biography of the teacher and inventor best known for his work with the deaf and his invention of the telephone.