The Official Newspaper for Foster County
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“Mr. Watson. Come here,” Alexander Graham Bell said to his aide, “I want you.” Those were the first words transmitted through Bell’s breakthrough technology, the telephone. The history books document that moment, but a pivotal event took place three days earlier. On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office granted Bell patent number 174,465, cementing his legacy as the inventor of the telephone. At the time, Bell did not operate a large business. The prototype telephone was built in a small workshop with help from just a single assistant...
