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Cornered! Alexander Graham Bell found guilty of plagiarism after 130 years
Cornered! Alexander Graham Bell found guilty of plagiarism after 130 years | Alexander Graham Bell found guilty of plagiarism after 130 years |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 07 January 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 "...underneath the legal intricacies and the suspicions of foul play, it appears that by any rational standard Bell actually invented the telephone; Gray had not transmitted speech at the time of the filings and would not do so for many months afterwards. Indeed the final irony of the drama is that, as of February 14 1876 [the date of the filings] no one had transmitted a single intelligible human word, but it would not be long before someone did [Bell to Watson on 10 March, view his notebook entry here ].
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