Ahoy! Ahoy! The Telephone, Entrepreneurship, and Cronyism
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Our history books tell us about how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. They don’t tell us that his company then successfully got the government to
On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted US Patent No. 174,565 for the speaking telegraph or telephone. Three weeks earlier, on February 14, both Bel...