United States Patent No. 174,465, issued to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, became recognized as the "most valuable patent." Yet early efforts to popularize the telephone were met with disappointment. Though people paid to hear Bell lecture on "the miracle discovery of the age," for a long time they seemed unaware of its possibilities.

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The History of The Telephone

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