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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) is most famous for his invention of the telephone. As a teenager of 18, Bell had been experimenting with the idea of transmitting speech. In 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph he developed the basic ideas for the telephone. He and his assistant Thomas Watson finally proved successful on March 10, 1876, when the first telephone message was transmitted: "Watson, come here; I want you.". This led eventually to the establishment of the Bell Telephone Company, still in existence today, which introduced the telephone to the world.

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