By golly cuhulin, old Stubblefield deserves a lot of credit, but I vote for
Mahlon Loomis - done did it in 1865

See URL: http://members.aol.com/jeff560/loomis.html
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google it,if you wish.
The World's First Radio? Telegraph,then Telephone.Then,,, Stubblefield?
I think so.
cuhulin