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Bell’s telephone Seeking to improve the telegraph in 1875, Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell stumbled on a discovery of far greater importance: He realized that sounds could travel Along the telegrAph wires, and be heard in another room. Bell’s first message to his assistant Thomas Watson was “Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you!” Bell’s interest in sound and communication was inspired by his mother and wife, who were both deaf.
This version of Bell’s phone was made to demonstrate the invention to Queen Victoria of the UK in 1878.
It paved the way for… The telephone exchange meant that more than one phone could be connected along the same line, less than a year after the phone was invented.
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In 1889, a coin-operated pay phone was installed at the Hartford Bank in Hartford, Connecticut.
