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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telegraph.
This is the day he got the invention patented. -
Radiophone is invented jointly by Alexancer Graham Bell And Charles Sumner Tainter.
The device allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light. -
World's first wireless telephone.
213 meters away -
The first rotary dial telephones in the Bell System.
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World's first videophone call.
from Washington, D.C. to New York City, by then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover. -
the first publicly available push-button telephone was released