Meucci was born in Florence in 1808 and trained as an engineer.
In the case of Antonio Meucci (and most others who filed patent caveats), this probably reflected an inability to afford to create the invention itself at that moment. The caveat was a way to ensure that the idea itself would be credited. Congress, a patent caveat was an official announcement, often accompanied by drawings and diagrams, of a future claim to file a patent. The patent caveat is familiar to historians of science. A patent caveat had been filed on Decemfor a device called a Sound Telegraph, the invention of an Italian immigrant to Staten Island, New York, Antonio Meucci. But the reason for that anticipation only muddied the waters more, because it turned out neither Gray nor Bell had actually filed the first patent for a telephone. There was a widespread sense of anticipation for this invention people knew it could potentially revolutionize human communications. The virtually simultaneous announcement of the telephone’s invention immediately became a legally contentious issue. I recommend his study to you.Telephone Patent Drawing by Alexander Graham Bell, Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, National Archives Brown has also shown that Bell and Gray worked independently of one another. It reveals a great respect between Bell and Gray. Benjamin Brown has done an exhaustive study of the matter. Now new scholarship comes to light on the Bell/Grey controversy. Suggesting the Coe book and providing me with a I am grateful to Judy Myers, UH Library, for Where we're interested in the way inventive minds I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston, Great inventions are always the gift of many In fact, we must thankīourseul, Reis, Gray, Bell - all of them. Just as Reis had built on the work of Bourseul He built on the combined wisdom of others. But to do that, he did what all inventorsĭo. The force of personality to sell it to a skeptical Produced a robust and viable telephone, and he had Still, we don't want to deny Bell's brilliance.
However, heĬould hardly have been unaware of Reis's work. In Scotland while Bell was back there visiting hisįather. Reis's phones wereĭemonstrated all over Europe. He was only 40, and he never did getĪround to seeking a patent for his device. Invention? Reis died two years before Bell received Wonder, was Bell also influenced by Reis's Still, it's clear that Gray's variable resistance Bell soon gave it up inįavor of a system closer to Reis's electromagnet. Of course evaporation and immobility both make a Resistance and a smoothly varying electricalĬurrent. Solution, to create a continuously variable First, he used aĭiaphragm-driven needle, entering a water/acid He didn't make and or break theīell faced the same problem when he began work on Reis usedīourseul's term, "make or break," but his diaphragmĪctually drove a thin rod to varying depths in anĮlectric coil. It should vary the flow of electricity to Sound, the first diaphragm shouldn't make or breakĬontact. Only one part of Bourseul's idea was shaky. TheĮlectric pulsations thereby produced will set the Vibration "make or break" the electric contact. Idea came from a paper by a French investigator Reis was a 26-year-old science teacher when heīegan work on the telephone in 1860. Rethinks the priority question in his book,
Wisdom is that Reis's telephone was only marginal, Telephone, and you may get the name of a German, Our civilization run, and the people whose
#Who invented telephone series
Presents this series about the machines that make The University of Houston's College of Engineering Today, an old question: who invented the telephone?
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