1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
Alexander Graham Bell received a US patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876
Patent application and diagrams.
Alexander Graham Bell s Telephone Patent Drawing courtesy Records of the Patent and Trademark Office Telephone & Light Patent Drawings | National Archives
Dozens of stamps have been issued celebrating both Bell and the telephone. These three are an interesting cross section of post office designs featuring both.
The stamps in order:
Alexander Graham Bell, Telephone
as part of The Millennium Collection (4th series)
Canada Post issued this on March 17, 2000
Designer: Julien LeBlanc
Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
part of Scientific Achievements of Edison and Bell series
Issued by Jersey Post on August 2, 2022
Designer:
Beatrice Garcia
Alexander Graham Bell, telephone centennial
airmail stamp
part of the Events and Anniversaries 1976 series
Issued by Paraguay Post on June 15, 1976
Talking into the first telephone courtesy Alexander Graham Bell – The Telephone | British Heritage
Bell received patent number 174,465 on March 7, 1876:
Bell’s patent covered “the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically … by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound” Alexander Graham Bell – The Telephone | British Heritage
Bell’s Letters of Patent, issued by US patent office. Courtesy Alexander Graham Bell – The Telephone | British Heritage