Fun fact #2: Accidentally invented the telephone

On June 2, 1875 the critical breakthrough of the telephone accidentally came about while they were working on the telegraph. After the critical breakthrough Bell Sketched a design for an electric telephone and Watson built it. Hubbard finally filed for the patent on February 14, 1876, just hours before Gray, their greatest competitor, appeared at the same patent office to file intent to patent his own telephone design. Bell’s patent was granted on March 7, 1876. Three days later, Bell tested a new transmitter, (Watson was in the other room), clearly heard in the other room, Bell’s summons “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” It was the first message transmitted by telephone. Dom-Pedro was astonished “My God- It talks.” He experimented with development of the harmonic telegraph- a device that could send multiple messages at the same time over a single wire.
Do you really think Bell invented the telephone? Well a Scottish-born immigrant conducted the first telephone conversation in Boston. The first long distance telephone call (Brantford to Paris, Ontario) occurred in Canada. U.S. writer Seth Shulman argues that the Canadian hero stole the phone’s key technology break through from American inventor Elisha Gray.