Lititz was connected On This Day in 1883 with a telephone exchange.
Just
seven years earlier, in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received the first patent
for the telephone in the United
States . He was not, however, the first to
actually invent it. That honor goes to Antonio Meucci, an Italian inventor, who
invented a basic phone in 1849.
Source:
“Inventing the Internet”
Elon University School
of Communications.
On
This Day is a prompt I started this month to further explore historical events.
©
Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2015
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