You’ll never guess who made the first wireless telephone

Alexander Graham Bell is widely credited with inventing the telephone, in 1876. It’s not entirely undisputed: Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, and Johann Philipp Reis each also have a decent claim as well, but Bell’s name is the one we most associate with the invention that lets us send a voice through a wire. So what about sending a voice without a wire? Besides the obvious method of just yelling, people tend to think of wireless voice transmissions as being by radio. Radio is ubiquitous today – with AM and FM broadcasts and cell phones and satellite dishes. But the first wireless telephone predates the first radio system by a decade and a half. Its technological descendants are just as important as radio, and it was created by an inventor you might have heard of. That inventor is Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell: Wireless Pioneer On April 1st, 1880, just as Bell’s telephone was starting to take off with customers, Bell himself had a new invention to test. Fellow inventor…