# Alexander Graham Bell — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Alexander Graham Bell has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [Alexander Graham Bell's Patent for the Telephone](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/174465/bell-telephone) — granted 1876
  Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 patent describing the method and apparatus for transmitting vocal sounds telegraphically, effectively inventing the telephone.

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