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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/13/2021 #17

In 2011, early sound recordings by Alexander Graham Bell that were packed away at the Smithsonian Institution for more than a century were played publicly for the first time using new technology that read the sound with light and a 3D camera. (In one recording, a man recites part of Hamlet’s Soliloquy; on another, a voice recites the numbers 1 through 6.) #AlexanderGrahamBell

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In 1915, America’s first official transcontinental telephone call took place as Alexander Graham Bell, who was in New York, spoke to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph. First Transcontinental Telephone Call #AlexanderGrahamBell

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In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. (The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.) As often happens in America, the distinction between “invented” and “patented” is tainted by the bias toward capitialism and business. Bell did not “invent” the telephone. Who really invented the telephone #AlexanderGrahamBell

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In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a U.S. patent for the telephone he didn’t invent. his telephone. #AlexanderGrahamBell

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In 1922, Alexander Graham Bell, generally regarded as the patent holder inventor of the telephone, died in Nova Scotia, Canada, at age 75. #AlexanderGrahamBell Antonio Meucci, the Italian Immigrant who couldn’t Patent the Telephone

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#8 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/03/2025 #1

In 1847, Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. #AlexanderGrahamBell

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