biography
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1835–1901)
|
| biography:
| Inventor, born in Barnesville, Ohio, USA. A manufacturer of telegraphic apparatus, his firm became the Western Electric Co. His 60 patents included a multiplex telegraph. He also claimed the invention of the telephone, but lost the patent rights to Alexander Graham Bell after a long legal battle in the US Supreme Court. |
|
|