"Father of the telephone" Bell was originally a "thief"

US Journalist's New Book: The "Father of the Telephone" Is Not Bell

According to the Express, Alexander Graham Bell has been celebrated and respected worldwide for inventing the telephone. However, in his upcoming book *The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret*, US journalist Seth Shulman claims that Bell was not the true "father of the telephone." Instead, his invention actually plagiarized the scientific ideas of his competitor, Elisha Gray.