The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray-Alexander Bell Controversy and Its Many Players
A. Edward Evenson · 2000
"Useful"--Public Library Quarterly; "interesting insight...entertaining"--TCI Singing Wires; "fascinating story"--Chicago Tribune. From court testimony, contemporary accounts, government documents, and the participants' correspondence, a fascinating story emerges. This book recounts the little-known story in full, relying on original documents (most never published) to preserve the flavor of the debate and provide an authentic account. Among the several appendices is the "lost copy" of Bell's original patent, the document that precipitated the charge of fraud against the Bell Telepho