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Mar

NEW INVENTION RECEIVED PATENT

Alexander Graham Bell: A Pioneer in Communication and Beyond

A 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell was granted U.S.
Patent No. 174,465 for the telephone on March 7, 1876.

The patent, often called the most valuable in U.S. history,
was filed on February 14, 1876—just hours before a similar
caveat by Elisha Gray—securing Bell the rights to the
invention.

Three days later, on March 10, 1876, Bell made the first
successful telephone call to his assistant…Thomas
Watson.

Alexander Graham Bell: The Invention of the Telephone

Bell Invents Telephone: 1876

Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone & Inventions | HISTORY

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Jan

COMMUNICATION REVOLUTIONIZED IN 1838

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On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse’s telegraph was demonstrated
for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New
Jersey. The telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit
encoded messages over a wire, would eventually revolutionize
long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity
in the 1920s and 1930s.