$(1)$ While the telephone is associated with Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Grey of Chicago filed for a patent for the same invention within hours of Bell on the same day in $1876.(2)$ After extensive litigation, Bell was awarded the patent. $(3)$ In fact, neither of them may have been first. $(4)$ Italian Antonio Meucci had a successful working model years earlier. $(5)$ Orville and Wilbur Wright are forever associated with the invention of the airplane in $1903.(6)$ However, there is evidence that in New Zealand, a farmer named Richard Pearse made a successful flight some months ahead of the Wright brothers. $(7)$ Others claim that Gustave Whitehead flew a homemade plane two years earlier in Bridgeport, Connecticut. $(8)$ The invention of the television is usually credited to Philo Farnsworth of San Francisco in $1926.(9)$ However, that same year a Russian immigrant in New York, Vladimir Zworykin, was working on a similar invention. $(10)$ In Scotland, also in $1926,$ John Logie Baird demonstrated a machine he called the $$televisor$.(11)$ When Baird and Farnsworth met and compared inventions some months later, Baird admitted Farnsworth had the better design. $(12)$ Clearly, while famous inventions usually come to be associated with one person, there are often competing claims for the same invention.

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