The invention of the telephone by Alexander Graha Bell
The invention of the telephone by Alexander Graha Bell
The facts
| Dates | AD 1876 |
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| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The invention of the telephone by Alexander Graha Bell falls 5880 years out from Creation at the centre. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
The publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”AD 1859The first transcontinental telegraph messageAD 1861The completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the U.SAD 1869The establishment of Yellowstone National Park in the U.SAD 1872Thomas Edison invents the phonographAD 1877The invention of the light bulb by Thomas EdisonAD 1879The introduction of the Kodak cameraAD 1888The opening of the Eiffel TowerAD 1889
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