A letter by telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell will be auctioned.
The missive, being sold by New Hampshire-based RR Auction, was written by Bell to his father in 1878 after a ‘lightning accident’ threatened the integrity of his fledging invention.The eight-page letter is highlighted by a one-of-a-kind sketch of two connected telephones, with in-depth instructions to his family on a necessary safety precaution - one that could possibly save their lives.
‘At this point the telephone was already functioning and in practical use,’ says Bobby Livingston, VP of Sales & Marketing for RR Auction. ‘The early mechanics of the device were complicated and required extreme attention to detail, without which, results could be disastrous - even fatal.’
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born pioneer in the field of telecommunications and inventor of the ‘electrical speech machine.'
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