INVENTION VS INVENTOR/ TELEPHONE/ SB.

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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 Alexander Graham Bell suggested ‘ahoy’ (as used in ships), but was later superseded by Thomas Edison, who suggested ‘hello’ instead.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 Bell was an influential scientist, engineer and inventor.
  • He is widely credited with the invention of the first practical telephone.
  • The didn’t have the middle name “Graham” until he turned 11 when his father gave it to him as a birthday present. He’d earlier asked to have a middle name like his two brothers.

    •  Bell became an excellent piano player at a young age.






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