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title: "4 Bell Telephone Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/well-there-was-stuff-going-on-heroic-events-one-was-what-used-to-be/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [“In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-poundstone/in-1894-alexander-graham-bell-s-telephone-patents-expired-within-a/)

[William Poundstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-poundstone/)

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> [“Television didn’t attract much public notice until Bell Telephone demonstrated its new system in New York in April 1927. Shown on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/television-didn-t-attract-much-public-notice-until-bell-telephone/)

[Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/)

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> [What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chester-carlson/what-bell-is-to-the-telephone-or-more-aptly-what-eastman-is-to/)

[Chester Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chester-carlson/)

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