March 3 marks several noteworthy events in the history of telecommunications. In 1843, Congress appropriated $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US. Four years later, through no apparently meaningful coincidence, Alexander Graham Bell was born (in Scotland). He is credited with inventing the telephone in June, 1875. This is also the date in 1885 for the founding of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., successor to the original Bell Telephone Company.
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