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A Wireless Phone Patent From 1880! Imagine That!
Submitted by A. Magnus on Wed, 2014-06-04 00:00
"On June 3, 1880, just four years after he patented the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell was talking wirelessly, sending his words over 213 meters on a mirror and a sunbeam on top of the Franklin School in Washington, DC. Bell called it his most important invention and named it the “photophone.”"
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