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The objector (or plaintiff) in the Supreme Court case was initially the Western Union telegraph company, which was then a far-larger and better financed competitor than American Bell Telephone. Western Union advocated several more recent patent claims of Daniel Drawbaugh, Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, and Philip Reis in a bid to invalidate ...
Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent Drawing, 1876 The master telephone patent, 174465, granted to Bell, March 7, 1876. According to Gray's account, his patent caveat was taken to the US patent office a few hours before Bell's application, shortly after the patent office opened, and remained near the bottom of the in-basket until that ...
Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company.Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois.
Western Union Telegraph Building, lithograph. The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado.. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, [3] the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with several other telegraph ...
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
In 1879, the company acquired Edison's patents for the carbon microphone from Western Union. This made the telephone practical for longer distances, and it was no longer necessary to shout to be heard at the receiving telephone. [citation needed] Pedro II of Brazil was the first person to buy stock in the Bell Telephone Company.
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In 1877 Delaney left the industry entirely, to work as a newspaper correspondent, editor, and writer, until the discovery in 1880 that his patent could be used as an alternative technology to challenge the Western Union Telegraph Company's monopoly on telegraph relays. Delaney's later inventions included more than 150 patents registered in the ...