{"id":6200,"date":"2007-12-26T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/did-bell-steal-ideas.html"},"modified":"2007-12-26T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:46:12","slug":"did-bell-steal-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/did-bell-steal-ideas.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Bell Steal Ideas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">If you are interested in historical telephony and whether Alexander Graham Bell actually invented the telephone or &ldquo;borrowed&rdquo; some patent ideas, you will want to read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/12\/26\/3184337.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">story<\/font><\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/old-phone.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Excerpt:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In &quot;The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell&#8217;s Secret,&quot; journalist Seth Shulman argues that Bell &#8212; aided by aggressive lawyers and a corrupt patent examiner &#8212; got an improper peek at patent documents Gray had filed, and that Bell was erroneously credited with filing first.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Shulman believes the smoking gun is Bell&#8217;s lab notebook, which was restricted by Bell&#8217;s family until 1976, then digitized and made widely available in 1999.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The notebook details the false starts Bell encountered as he and assistant Thomas Watson tried transmitting sound electromagnetically over a wire. Then, after a 12-day gap in 1876 &#8212; when Bell went to Washington to sort out patent questions about his work &#8212; he suddenly began trying another kind of voice transmitter. That method was the one that proved successful.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are interested in historical telephony and whether Alexander Graham Bell actually invented the telephone or &ldquo;borrowed&rdquo; some patent ideas, you will want to read this story. &nbsp; Excerpt: &nbsp; In &quot;The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell&#8217;s Secret,&quot; journalist Seth Shulman argues that Bell &#8212; aided by aggressive lawyers and a corrupt patent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,1673,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}