Answer:Alexander Graham Bell is often credited with being the inventor of the telephone since he was awarded the first successful patent. However, there were many other inventors such as Elisha Gray and Antonio Meucci who also developed a talking telegraph. First Bell Telephone, June 1875.
telephone inventors
1. Alexander Graham Bell
2. Antonio Meucci
3. Amos Dolbear
4. john peirce
5.Charles A. Cheever
