On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell received an exclusive patent for the telephone - a device that allows for sound to be carried across great distances. Since it is a well-known fact that most scientific developments are first adopted by the military, you would think the telephone was among them.
And you’d be wrong.
The telephone made quite a stir when it was patented and became commercially available, but the early models were more of a novelty - the sheer gimmick of hearing someone across the distance made it popular, but the distance wasn’t great, and the sound quality downright abysmal. A lot of time would pass before the phone would become practical, and until then, the military continued to rely on signals and codes.
Even Alexander Bell thought of the telephone as only one of his many inventions, and not even his greatest. However, one of his inventions was adopted by the military almost immediately, and remains in wide use even today - the mine detector.
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