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Ask any historian—or child, for that matter—to name the “father of the telephone,” and most will say Alexander Graham Bell, who patented his revolutionary invention in 1876. But long before that, in ...

In everyday language, the word “inventor” tends to be used loosely — it might refer to anyone who worked on a project, contributed to a discovery, ...