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__**Alexander Graham Bell**__

A Scottish-born teacher of the death, who invented the "Talking Machine." Alexander Graham Bell had started working on his invention in 1865, and tested it in 1876. He had called in his assistant while using the talking machine and it had worked. Most people had seen it as a toy in the 1870s, so when he had offered to sell it to the Western Union Telegraph Company for $100,000, they had refused. In 1877, Bell created the Bell Telephone Company and by 1885 he had sold more than 300,000 phones and made millions. The telephone was faster and easier to tell people things that arent next to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66D_XibfYf0 http://docsteach.org/documents/302052/detail?mode=browse&menu=closed&era%5B%5D=the-development-of-the-industrial-united-states&page=4