Seth Shulman claims there is “little doubt” that Bell stole his initial telephone design from Elisha Gray, an engineer working in Illinois.Shulman believes that the Scotsman plagiarised Gray’s documents with the help of a corrupt patent examiner, and that Bell was wrongly credited with composing the first patent on the telephone.
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