INVENTION VS INVENTOR/ TELEPHONE/ SB.
FACTS ABOUT THE TELEPHONE INVENTION “Ahoy” was the original telephone greeting. Alexander Graham Bell suggested ‘ahoy’ (as used in ships), but was later superseded by Thomas Edison, who suggested ‘hello’ instead. The very first phone call was: “Watson come here, I want you!”. It was made on March 10, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, between Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas A. Watson. In the early days, telephone wires were ranked according to how tasty they were to mice and rats . The origin of the phrase ‘to put someone on hold’ was Alexander Graham Bell handing over his telephone instrument to his partner Mr Watson and saying, “here, hold this” . A ton of mobile phones contains more gold than a ton of ore from a gold mine. FACTS ABOUT THE TELEPHONE INVENTOR He was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died on August 2, 1922 at the age of 75. Alexander Graham ...