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may 1, 1874 - Bell invents the telephone

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He starts experimenting on the phonoautograph, a machine that helps plot sound waves. In the summer of this year he came up with the idea of a telephone. He hired an assistant named Thomas Watson.

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may 1, 1874
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~ 152 years ago