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The Man who began it all

  Alexander Graham Bell,  a teacher of the deaf was on a quest to help people who could not hear find a new way.    Bell, had sought a way to transmit speech electronically. He invented the  telephone  in March 1876. The earliest design of a telephone was rather simple compared to anything we have today.   The earliest telephones had only one wire for transmitting and receiving of audio and used a ground with a return path. The earliest dynamic telephones also had only one opening (Cavity) for sound, and the user listened and spoke into the same hole. Over the years Bell refined his telephone and helped build a network.  At first, it was a luxury of the elite and wealthy. Thus the telecom tax to pay for World War I was placed on the early phone network and still continues to this day.    In 1925, Bell realized he needed to grow his organization and build a team.  Thus in Alexander Graham Bell founded Bell Labs a  join...