Who invented the telephone
Tom:
I have completed a manuscript that discloses the true story about who invented the telephone. And, it was not Alexander Graham Bell. The manuscript is currently with a literary agent who has some interested publishers. I have literally thousands of pages of research and some here-to-for undisclosed information that shows a clear line of invention and documentation that though Alexander Graham Bell should only be given credit for having received a US patent for a device that became known as a telephone. My book will conclude that history books and encyclopedias should record that Antonio Meucci was the first to successfully and repeatedly transmit speech through an electrical wire, i.e., should be recorded as the inventor of the telephone. This manuscript also shows a definite connection between Antonio Meucci and Alexander Graham Bell and A. G. Bell's father-in-law. If you'll send my your mailing address I'll provide you with some published sources of information
Russell Pizer
Dear Rusell:
I wish you well with your manuscript. If a low standard of proof is observed then Meucci, Dolbear, Gray, or Reis may be credited with inventing the telephone. I will not agree to a low standard. It is true sometimes that the wrong people are credited for an invention. Morse, for example, did not invent the telegraph, Edison did not make the first incandescent light bulb, and Marconi did not originate radio. But all three are given credit, in the main., for inventing these things because they published their findings and brought practical systems first to the marketplace. Unlike the previous three, however, Bell's claim to being first to transmit intelligible speech is well documented.
Like Gray, Meucci claims Bell stole his ideas. This means Bell must have falsified every notebook and letter he wrote about his conclusions. Nothing in Bell's writing, character, or his life after 1876 suggest he did so, indeed, in the more than 600 lawsuits which involved him, no one else was credited for inventing the telephone.
It is not my mind alone that you must change, nor even that of the public, it is the mind of the world scientific community. They will demand a high standard of proof. Again, I wish you well with your writing. I think it not necessary to prove that Mecuci invented the telephone, I am sure his is an interesting life to write on, proven claim or not.
Best regards,
Tom Farley