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Alexander Graham Bell received the United States patent for the telephone on 7 March 1876. The fight over who first sent a voice down a wire has never really ended. The patent did something narrower: it put one name, and one date, on the legal claim.

The famous telephone date is a patent, not the first voice on a wire.

Alexander Graham Bell · Encyclopaedia Britannica · 1876 · Factapp