True Stuff: Alexander Graham Bell vs. Western Union – Wondermark
TIL Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000 in 1876. The committee appointed to investigate the offer concluded the telephone was "hardly more than a
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Magic Apple - PHONE FACT! Late in 1876, William Orton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, rejected an opportunity to purchase from Alexander Graham Bell and his associates all patents relating
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RARE! 1876 Western Union Telegraph Co. of Baltimore City Signed by A.B.Proal-$$$ | #1820878659
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Western Union memo in 1876 on the telephone : r/agedlikemilk
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Western Union Telegraph Building, Manhattan
Jon Erlichman on Twitter: "“This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” ~Western Union staff memo,
File:"WESTERN UNION RAILROAD" ad in 1876 with "SHORTEST AND MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO Beloit, Dubuque,
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Eric Rosenberg on Twitter: ""This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal
Heinz V. Hoenen 🌻 on Twitter: ""This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us," -- Western
