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Who is generally considered to be the inventor of the telephone?
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Alexander Graham Bell is generally considered to be the inventor of the telephone. On March 7, 1876, he received basic patent number 174,465 in the United States for a method of electrically transmitting speech and other sounds. Just three days later, on March 10, 1876, Bell and his assistant Thomas Augustus Watson achieved one of the most famous demonstrations of the technology: speech was transmitted intelligibly electrically via his telephone. However, the history of the invention is more complicated than the simple attribution suggests. Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci and other researchers also worked on electrical voice transmission technologies. Elisha Gray even filed paperwork with the U.S. Patent Office on the same day as Bell. However, Bell received the crucial patent and went on to develop a functioning telephone system, which is why he is still generally referred to as the inventor of the telephone today.
Alexander Graham Bell is generally considered the inventor of the telephone, although several researchers worked on early voice transmission.
