Originally posted by NUKE
technically, the telephone was invented in America by an American, not that it matters too much
The conception of the Telephone took place during that summer visit to my father's residence in Brantford in 1874, and the apparatus was just as it was subsequently made, a one-membrane telephone on either end ... The experiment of August 10, 1876, made from Brantford to Paris, was the first transmission, the first clear, intelligible transmission of speech over the real line, that had ever been made."
- A. G. Bell at Boston, Massachusetts, March 13, 1916
bell was a brit, and became a naturalized american in 1882. he and his wife are buried in nova scotia.