The Aural Voyeur
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The Origins of Bell's Phone
Bell took his invention to the communications giant of the day, Western Union. Elijah Gray submitted a competing patent earlier on the very same day. The president of Western Union really hates Bell's father-in-law. So it gets quite personal. And they instead hire Edison, who's the great American genius,. and Elijah Gray, the confronted nemesis.
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