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telephones  

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  • The telephone, an initial version of which was patented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, emerged from research into improving telegraphy. The innovation was a mechanism for delivering voice and audio signals over a short distance via wires. [Source: Encyclopedia of Journalism; Telephone]

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