Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the first practical telephone. The classic story of him saying "Watson, come here! I want to see you! '' is a well - known part of the history of the telephone. This showed that the telephone worked, but it was a short - range phone. Bell was the first to obtain a patent, in 1876, for an "apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically '', after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. Bell was also an astute and articulate businessman with influential and wealthy friends.
who invented the telephone and in what year
Alexander Graham Bell 1876