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Patent acquired in 1879, by Alexander Graham Bell
 
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Bells father had invented a written language that could teach the deaf to speak. Bell himself was much influenced by Samuel Morse's telegraph, but he wanted to push the envelope, he wanted to make a machine that could combine the telegraph and the gramaphone, where people could hear each other speak.

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Patent acquired in 1879, by Alexander Graham Bell

Bells father had invented a written language that could teach the deaf to speak. Bell himself was much influenced by Samuel Morse's telegraph, but he wanted to push the envelope, he wanted to make a machine that could combine the telegraph and the gramaphone, where people could hear each other speak.