Inventors who didn’t invent what they are famous for inventing

Any schoolchild knows who came up with the telephone or the sewing machine. But conventional wisdom often has it all wrong.
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This day in history: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.
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The development of electrical technology in the 19th century

This three-part publication is comprised of Papers 28, 29, and 30 from Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology. They are titled as follows: 1. The electrochemical cell and the ...
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6 famous inventions that were quietly attributed to the wrong person — and the actual inventors history forgot

The light bulb wasn’t really Edison’s. The telephone wasn’t really Bell’s. In 2002, the ...
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The telephone and telephone exchanges; their invention and development, [by] J. E. Kingsbury ..

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