Step 1 : Introduction to the question "2. Who had interesting times after someone else claimed to have invented the telephone before he did?"
...1. Albert Einstein 2. John M. W. Herlrouge 3. Thomas Edison 4. Alexander Graham Bell Elisha Gray said that he had invented the telephone before Bell did. The two men went to court and Bell won since his invention was patented first. Alexander Graham Bell is credited with saying the first words on a telephone by telling his assistant to "come here" over the phone.