Re: 7 March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell is Granted a Patent for The Teleph one

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

From:                   "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date sent:              Tue, 7 Mar 2006 04:44:08 GMT

> With financing from his American father-in-law, on March 7, 1876, the U.S.
> Patent Office granted him Patent Number 174,465 covering "the method of, and
> apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically ... by causing
> electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air
> accompanying the said vocal or other sound", the telephone.

And later he invented the hydrofoil ...

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