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jan 1, 1849 - Invention of the telephone

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The telephone was invented in 1849, by a man named Antonio Meucci. Three years after the telephone was constructed, 49,000 were bought and in use. In 1900 there were almost 600,000 telephones in one telephone system.

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jan 1, 1849
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~ 176 years ago