Trivia: Which of these inventors was NOT involved with telephones?
Thomas Edison
Samuel Morse
Guglielmo Marconi
Elisha Gray
The correct answer is Samuel Morse
So why is this answer correct? : Thomas Edison improved on Bell’s original telephone transmitter, Guglielmo Marconi introduced a wireless telephone in 1915, and Elisha Gray created a telephone prototype in 1876 (in fact some believe he’s the true inventor of the device). Samuel Morse, on the other hand, was the inventor of the telegraph — the technology the telephone largely replaced. Morse died four years before Bell’s famous 1876 inaugural phone.