Best Inventions of 2007

From the phone that has changed phones forever, to futuristic cars, to a building made of water, to a remote-controlled dragonfly — a dazzling display of ingenuity

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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

Alexander Graham Bell

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Both his mother and his wife were deaf, hence his interest in acoustics. Others had created working phones, but Bell gave us the first commercially practical telephone, as well as the metal detector and the graphophone, an improved version of the phonograph.

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