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+-   Alexander Graham Bell: Patent Theif?-> on Thursday December 27 2007, @07:55AM DynaSoar

Submitted by DynaSoar on Thursday December 27 2007, @07:55AM
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DynaSoar writes "MSNBC is carrying an AP article reviewing a book due out January 7, that claims to show definitive evidence that Bell stole the essential idea for telephony from Elisha Gray http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22400009/. Author Seth Shulman shows that Bell's notebooks contain false starts, and then after a 12 day gap during which he visited the US Patent Office, suddenly show an entirely different design, very similar to Gray's design for multiplexing Morse code signals. Shulman claims that Bell copied the design from Gray's patent application and was improperly given credit for earlier submission, with the help of a corrupt patent examiner and aggressive lawyers. Shulman also claims that fear of being found out is the reason Bell distanced himself from the company that carried his name. And if Gray Telephone doesn't seem to roll off the tongue, Shulman also noted that both of them were two decades behind the German inventor Johann Philipp Reis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Reis who produced the first working telephony system."
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