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The electric telegraph was invented to send electric signals over a wire. The signals could be made into a message.

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Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both made inventions that could send speech along wires using electricity. Bell was the first one to invent the telephone.

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A man named Strowger invented a way to connect one telephone to up to 100 other telephone lines by using relays and sliders.