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The Telephone Gambit
Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret by Seth Shulman
Norton, New York, 2008. 256 pp. $24.95, C$27.50. ISBN 9780393062069.
On the basis of his own archival research, the author argues that Alexander Graham Bell stole the key idea behind the invention of the telephone from Elisha Gray.
The reviewer, the author of Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology, is at the College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 247 4th Street, Atlanta, GA 30332-0155, USA. E-mail: david.morton{at}coa.gatech.edu
