THE FIRST TELEPHONE
DEATH OF MAKER OF ORIGINAL SET (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, June 3. (Received June 4, at 11.30 a.m.) The man who made the world’s first telephone has died at Bedford, aged 92. He was Mr George Forrest, who, when Graham Bell invented the telephone, made the first receiving and transmitting set.
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Evening Star, Issue 22975, 4 June 1938, Page 17
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57THE FIRST TELEPHONE Evening Star, Issue 22975, 4 June 1938, Page 17
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