Did Alexander Graham Bell invention of the telephone have an impact on America and how?

Answer 1

Bell was the first to patent the telephone. There is some evidence that says he may not have been the first inventor to build a working telephone. At least two other inventors of that period claim to have had working telephones before Bell.

The first is Antonio Meucci, an Italian inventor from NY, and Elisha Gray from Ohio. Gray filed his patent just a few hours after Bell filed his, meaning the Patent Office named Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone. Gray went on to patent a 'teleautograph' device - an early version of today's fax machines.

The telephone could be considered as the foundation for all modern communication. Without him and what he did for communticating, we might not have cell phones or quick communitcation devices like that today. We could still be using notes sent with birds or sent with people.