After years of experiments, inventor Alexander Graham Bell sought something revolutionary: to transmit not just the sound of the human voice but audible words. With the telephone, Bell wrote in 1878, “It is possible to connect every man’s house, office or factory with a central station, so as to give him direct communication with his neighbors.” This is one of the more than 1,000 inventions Graham Bell would patent in his lifetime.
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