Bell stole patents
2007-12-27 17:56:46.357904+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
More evidence that Alexander Graham Bell stole the telephone idea:
In "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret," journalist Seth Shulman argues that Bell - aided by aggressive lawyers and a corrupt patent examiner - got an improper peek at patent documents Gray had filed, and that Bell was erroneously credited with filing first.
Shulman believes the smoking gun is Bell's lab notebook, which was restricted by Bell's family until 1976, then digitized and made widely available in 1999.
My impression was that this was already pretty much concluded, but here's more evidence. Via.