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Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the photophone

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Alexander Graham Bell Invented the Photophone
June 3, 1880

You may know that a telephone uses electricity to send voice communications. However, you may not know that the man who invented the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) had another invention that used light to transmit sound. He called it the photophone.
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