Did Graham Bell discovered Telephone???

Centuries back, if you want to contact your loved one, either you have to send messages through pigeons,send messengers or otherwise you have to meet them personally.

But what now??? Just one Phone call!!!

Whom do you want to say thanks? Is that Alexander Graham Bell, who discovered telephone???

Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for his invention on March 7, 1876 and his device could transmit speech electrically. Bell and Watson were the first to transmit speech one could understand.

But are you sure that he was the first person to discover telephone?
No one else ever tried with that work before???

It is Antonio Meucci...

The great Italian inventor filed a patent caveat (temporary right for the invention) in 1874 for an invention he later called the "teletrofono" involving electronic communications. He was unable to raise sufficient funds to pay his way through the patent application process.So he can't register his invention permanently.

In March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, who conducted experiments in the same laboratory where Meucci's materials had been stored, was granted a patent and was thereafter credited with inventing the telephone.

Finally, if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to Graham Bell.