QuickCheck: Was the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell?


Alexander Graham Bell making the first long-distance telephone call in New York (calling Chicago) in 1892. - Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

THE name Alexander Graham Bell is synonymous with the invention that changed human communication forever.

But was he really the person who invented the telephone?

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