![]() ![]() Shulman’s conclusion is clear: Bell saw the caveat and copied the idea into his notebook. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” Shulman claims that the drawing of a liquid transmitter is strikingly similar to the earlier drawing in Elisha Gray’s patent caveat. He digs into archives and discovers a critical page in Bell’s notebook from March 1876, a sketch drawn shortly before the time that Bell uttered the famous phrase, “Mr. In this well-written but critically flawed account, Shulman tells the story of his research in the Bell-versus-Gray controversy- the question of who first came up with the key technological innovation for the phone. Shulman sees a similarity between Gray's patent drawing and Bell's later sketch in his notebook and that is proof that Bell stole the idea of the liquid transmitter. In his new book, The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret (Norton, 256 pages, $24.95), Seth Shulman states that the famous inventor “was plagued by a secret: he stole the key idea behind the invention of the telephone.” ![]()
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