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mar 7, 1876 - Telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the telephone. A system for transmitting voices over a distance using wire or radio, by converting acoustic vibrations to electrical signals.

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mar 7, 1876
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~ 149 years ago

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