When Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, went to his workshop in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, to wrestle with scientific problems, he would usually stuff a towel around the telephone there so it could not ring and interrupt him.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28820, 14 February 1959, Page 10
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