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Watson, come here — I want to see you," according to author A. Edward Evenson in his
book, “The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray-Alexander Bell
Controversy and Its Many Players” (McFarland, 2015).
Bell’s inspiration for the telephone was influenced by his family. His father taught speech
elocution and specialized in teaching the deaf speak, his mother, an accomplished
musician, lost her hearing in later life and his wife Mabel, who he married in 1877, had
been deaf since the age of five, according to Evenson. The invention quickly took off and
revolutionized global business and communication. When Bell died on Aug. 2, 1922, all
telephone service in the United States and Canada was stopped for one minute to honor
him.
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