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Inventor

Alexander Graham Bell

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1

Year range

1876

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1876

Total patents

1

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1876

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telecommunications

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1870s
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1 patents, in 1876

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US 174465·1876·Individual

Alexander Graham Bell's Patent for the Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 patent describing the method and apparatus for transmitting vocal sounds telegraphically, effectively inventing the telephone.

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