Credit for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed. As with other influential inventions such as radio, television, the light bulb, and the computer, there were several inventors who did pioneering experimental work on voice transmission over a wire and improved on each other's ideas. Innocenzo Manzetti, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison, among others, have all been credited with pioneering work on the telephone.

An undisputed fact is that Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in March 1876. That first patent by Bell was the master patent of the telephone, from which other patents for electric telephone devices and features flowed.

You receive the following library of forty {40} historical books and catalogs:

♥ A B C Of The Telephone {1904}

♥ American Electric {1906}

♥ Andrae Catalog #11

♥ Andrae Facts For Farmers About Telephones

♥ Andrae Giant Telephones

♥ Andrae Telephone Equipment Catalog

♥ Chicago Telephone Catalog #29

♥ Chicago Telephone Catalog #42

♥ Chicago Telephone Catalog #51

♥ DeVeau & Company Catalog {1895}

♥ DeVeau & Company Catalog {Catalog #12}

♥ Eureka Electric Company Catalog

♥ Farr Telephone Catalog #1

♥ Farr Telephone Catalog #14

♥ Gray Pay Telephone Catalog {1912}

♥ Invention and Discovery {1902}

♥ Inventors {1893}

♥ Lectures Upon the Mechanism of Sspeech {1906}

♥ Men Who are Making America {1917}

♥ Mianus Electric Catalog {1895}

♥ Mianus Electric Catalog {1899}

♥ Monarch Telephone Catalog #34

♥ Monarch Telephone Catalog #54

♥ Simultaneous Telephone and Telegraphy {1928}

♥ Story of Alexander Graham Bell

♥ Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Supplies Catalog {1924}

♥ T. W. Ness Telephone Catalogue #6

♥ Telephone Construction {1908}

♥ Telephone Station Equipment {1931}

♥ The Bell Telephone System {1941}}

♥ The Birth Of The Telephone {1913}

♥ The History of the Telephone {1910}

♥ The Story Of The Telephone {1927}

♥ The Telephone In America {1937}

♥ The Telephone in Canada {1900}

♥ The Telephone, Researches in Electric Telephony {1878}

♥ Twelve years of the Telephone Pioneers of America {1923}

♥ Western Telephone Company Catalog

♥ Western Telephone Construction Company Catalog

♥ Western Telephone History {1935}