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Invention of Telephone

United States of America · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1876Date range
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Chronological records

1876

Alexander Graham Bell3 March 1876

Science / Technology

Granted a patent for the telephone

Names involved

Alexander Graham Bell

Provenance

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