Who was the scientist who invented the telephone?

The inventor of the telephone was American Alexander Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was an American inventor and entrepreneur. On March 7, 1876, Bell received a patent for the invention of the telephone. The next year, the first telephone lines were opened in Boston and New York.

There is still controversy about the inventor of the telephone. The U.S. Congress determined that Italian Antonio Meucci was the inventor of the telephone on June 15, 2002, and the Canadian Congress passed a resolution on June 21, 2002. , reiterated that Bell was the inventor of the telephone, while others believed that Elisha Gray was the inventor of the telephone.