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It was 1876. William Orton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company was approached about a new invention through which people could speak with each other - the talking telegraph.

Orton, well regarded as the leading electrical expert in the country remarked “There is nothing in this patent whatever, nor is there anything in the scheme itself, except as a toy.”

Having had his invention rejected in this manner, Alexander Graham Bell went ahead and established the Bell Telephone Company the f...