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The Book of Origins is for people who want to know how and when things began, where they came from, and why they started.

For instance, the telephone was invented in 1876 by Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) at the age of 29. He had succeeded in transmitting speech sounds the year before.

Elisha Gray (1835-1901) also invented the telephone in 1876, but Bell beat him to the Patent Office by just a few hours. A major court battle followed which went in favour of Bell. Unlike Bell, Gray had produced a working prototype in 1874, but neglected to patent it.