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03/07/2005: "FIRSTS!"

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FIRSTS !
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March 7th marks the 129th anniversary of the telephone.
Though the patent was issued to Alexander Graham Bell,
he had actually been experimenting with audio technology,
aimed at creating a hearing device for the deaf. Bell got to
the patent office, however, a mere two hours before Elisha Gray,
who had developed a similar contraption.

It's all in the timeing.

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Alexander Graham Bell - Biography
In 1876 at the age of 29 Alexander Graham Bell invented a phone and a year later
he started the Bell telephone company.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone2.htm

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Elisha Gray
... Elisha Gray, 1878. (Oberlin College Archives). Elisha Gray, "American inventor,
who contested the invention of the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell. ...
http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/ElishaGray.html

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