The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, who received the first successful patent for a working telephone in 1876.

Quick Scoop

  • The first practical telephone is credited to Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish-born inventor who later became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
  • Bell filed and was granted his landmark telephone patent on March 7, 1876, which is widely recognized as the birth of the telephone as a usable device.
  • Although other inventors such as Elisha Gray were working on similar ideas at roughly the same time, Bell’s patent and early successful demonstrations are why history usually names him as the one who “made the phone.”

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