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Beyond the telephone: a look at Alexander Graham Bell’s overshadowed inventions

But the Scottish-American inventor’s legacy encompasses a lot more than just inventing the telephone, a device which he didn’t even consider to be his greatest invention. Image credits: Creative Commons Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh …
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Graham Bell phone instructions (to his parents) go for $92,000 – Los Angeles Times

Bell wrote a seven-page letter in 1878 attempting to explain to his parents precisely how to use his new invention. That letter sold for more than $ 92,000 in a New Hampshire auction this week. The instructions, complete with elaborate drawings …
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