February 14 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray Apply for Patents on the Telephone

February 14 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray Apply for Patents on the Telephone3.3 (66.67%) 3 votes More than three decades after the idea of a telephone was first considered by Innocenzo Manzetti, two Americans rushed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on February 14, 1876 to claim credit for the world-changing invention. Though others would lay claim to creating devices capable of transmitting the human voice in the years before, the competition between Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray would come to define the 20-year battle to secure control of the technology. Throughout the first half of the 19th century, the electrical telegraph rapidly […]