Was the telephone an invention or an innovation, after all, every component eg mic, headphone, electrial .?

. wiring, the battery and a mirriad of other bibs and bobs within the phones internals (all developed by different people) had to be in place before Mr. Bell could even consider designing and producing the first and (most importantly) the second one.

So to re-itterate; invention or innovation?

Answers:
You have just illustrated the fact that an invention and an innovation are not easily distinguished.
Have you just nicked my answer to create another question??
innovation
Telephone was invention.....what followed was innovation. Invention is something brand new, not before know....innovation builds on the original invention.
The parts may have been around, but know one stuck them together and made a phone, until Bell came along,

So the answer to the invention of the Telling Bone, is Invention, funny enough

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