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The telephone is attributed to being invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. There is controversy over this and some scholars believe that another gentleman, Antonio Meucci, was the inventor of this device in 1860.

Meucci lacked the funding to have further market the telephone and get a patent on the device. Bell patented his telephone 16 years later.

It is important to note that there is no one single person who invented the telephone - it is a culmination of many people working towards the end result.

For example telephones are world wide

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