"Father of the telephone"Alexander Graham Bell died 100 years ago
With the very first telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, who died 100 years ago, ushered in a completely new era of communication - which has since led to the age of smartphones.
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The British-American physicist Alexander Graham Bell after a portrait by Harris & Ewing in 1915. The "father of the telephone" died on August 2, 1922.