<P> Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the first practical telephone . The classic story of him saying `` Watson , come here ! I want to see you ! '' is a well - known part of the history of the telephone . This showed that the telephone worked , but it was a short - range phone . Bell was the first to obtain a patent , in 1876 , for an `` apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically '' , after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers . Bell was also an astute and articulate businessman with influential and wealthy friends . </P>
<P> Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the first practical telephone . The classic story of him saying `` Watson , come here ! I want to see you ! '' is a well - known part of the history of the telephone . This showed that the telephone worked , but it was a short - range phone . Bell was the first to obtain a patent , in 1876 , for an `` apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically '' , after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers . Bell was also an astute and articulate businessman with influential and wealthy friends . </P>
who invented the telephone and in what year
who invented the telephone and in what year
Alexander Graham Bell 1876
Alexander Graham Bell 1876