Telephone

<p>The powerful Speaker of the House missed not one but two chances to invest in AT&amp;T in the early days</p>

<p><em>"My God, it talks!” said the Emperor of Brazil. So the new invention did—but not until Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant had solved some brain racking problems</em></p>

<p><span class="deck">This is the story of AT&amp;T, from its origins in Bell’s first local call ,to last year’s divestiture. Hail and goodbye.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The urge to move documents as fast as possible has always been a national preoccupation because it has always been a necessity. Faxes and Federal Express are just the latest among many innovations for getting the message across.</span></p>

<p>A new book claims that Alexander Graham Bell stole the telephone from Elisha Gray, despite all the evidence against that theory.</p>

<p>Alexander Graham Bell was able to invent the telephone in 1875 after Thomas Watson tweaked a reed that transmitted sounds to the next room.</p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt">America’s first female soldiers were Signal Corps telephone operators who made sure that critical messages got through, often while threatened by artillery fire.</p>

<p>After the Department of Justice brought suit to nullify the Bell telephone patents, it was discovered the action could have made Attorney General Garland a multi-millionaire.</p>