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Antonio Meucci is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849
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Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854
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Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.
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n 1915 the transcontinental telephone line began operating.
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A typical cordless phone in the 1990s.
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house phones used less