A Enciclopedia Britânica escreve a este propósito:
"Within a year followed the commercial application and, a few months later, the first of hundreds of legal suits. Ironically, the telephone — until then all too often regarded as a joke and its creator-prophet as, at best, an eccentric — was the subject of the most involved patent litigation in history. The most noteworthy contemporaries of Bell were Antonio Meucci, who filed a caveat (rather than a full patent) in 1871 and let it lapse through lack of funds, and Elisha Gray, who filed a caveat on February 14, 1876, just a few hours after Bell submitted a patent claim. In recognition of Meucci’s earlier work, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on June 11, 2002, honouring his work".Alexander Graham Bell nasceu a 3 de Março de 1847, em Edimburgo, na Escócia, e, além do telefone, ele e a sua família tornaram-se nomes cimeiros num outro campo aparentado com os estudos que originaram a transmissão do som a distância: a elocução e correcção da fala, especialmente com surdos.
(Crédito da imagem: Photos.com/Jupiterimages. Bell na inauguração da linha telefónica Nova Iorque - Chicago, em 1892. Pormenor).
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