Which person maintained that he, not Alexander Graham Bell, had invented the telephone and that Bell had stolen.......

Question

When Alexander Litvinenko was granted asylum in the UK in 2000, following which he was assassinated, where had he been an officer?

Answer 1

Elisha Gray
Gray was an electrical engineer and prolific inventor. He co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company and developed and, on 14 February 1876, applied for a provisional patent in the US for a telephone. On the same day Bell's lawyers submitted a draft application in the US for the same system. The discussion continues as to which inventor should have the rights to the telephone. Another inventor, Antonio Meucci, had also submitted a patent caveat for a telephone - in 1871 - but although his device used electromagnetic transmission of the sound as well, he did not ment