Title: Who Invented The Telephone? The Complete Truth - RankRed
Headings: Who Invented The Telephone? The Complete Truth
Who Invented The Telephone? The Complete Truth
Antonio Meucci
Constructed an early voice communicating device in 1854
Johann Philipp Reis
Built the first ‘make-and-break’ telephone in 1861
Innocenzo Manzetti
Reported to have invented a speaking-telegraph in 1864
Elisha Gray
Designed a telephone using a water microphone in 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
Awarded the first US Patent for the invention of the practical telephone in 1876
Thomas Edison
Invented the carbon microphone to produce a strong telephone signal
Tivadar Puskás
Proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876
Varun Kumar

Content: They passed a resolution that says –
“if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to Bell.” In 2008, the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities celebrated Meucci’s 200th birthday using the title ‘Inventore del telefono’ (inventor of the telephone). Johann Philipp Reis
Reis and his telephone
Built the first ‘make-and-break’ telephone in 1861
Johann Philipp Reis, a self-taught German scientist, constructed the first speech transmitting telephone in 1861, which is now known as the Reis telephone. He coined the term ‘telephon’ to describe his device. It captures sound, converts it into electrical impulses, and transmit those impulses through electrical wires to another device that transforms the pulses into human-recognizable sounds. To prove that the device could transmit acoustic sounds over long distances, Reis sent a hard-to-understand German phrase ‘Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat’ (The horse does not eat cucumber salad). A British telephone company named Standard Telephones and Cables later found that Reis’ device built in the early 1860s were capable of transmitting and reproducing speech of good quality, but of low efficiency. Philip Reis died in 1874, and four years later, European researchers dedicated a monument to him as the inventor of the telephone. Innocenzo Manzetti
Reported to have invented a speaking-telegraph in 1864
Innocenzo Manzetti first presented the idea of a ‘speaking telegraph’ in 1843. However, he did not come up with any working prototype until 1864.