• AmericanHeritage.com / Inventing the Telephone—And Triggering All-Out Patent War
  the patent war page disappeared from AmericanHeritage, but this reports perhaps approximately the same events
  On the afternoon of June 2, 1875, two young men bent over work benches in the hot and stifling garret of a five-story brick building occupied by the electrical workshops of Charles Williams, at 109 Court Street, Boston. They did not speak to one another, for they were in separate rooms some sixty feet apart, at opposite ends of the floor.
  america american forbes heritage history invention states technology u.s united
  in more_robbers with all-out inventing more_robbers patent telephoneand triggering war

inventing from all users