David Alter
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About
Famous nineteenth-century inventor who created the electric clock and the electric buggy. He invented a short-range type of telephone, which was a forerunner of the Graham Bell telephone.
Before Fame
He graduated from the Reformed Medical School in New York City.
Trivia
He invented a method for extracting oil from coal and shale in 1858. In 1853, he discovered Spectral Analysis.
Family Life
He was married to Laura Rowley, and later to her sister Amanda Rowley, and had a total of thirteen children.
Associated With
He invented a popular telegraph one year before Samuel Morse created Morse code.
