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Story about Alexander Graham Bell
For more than a decade, Alexander Graham Bell and his business colleagues couldn't interest anyone in using the telephone. Business owners in particular ridiculed the notion that they would ever want one.
Discouraged, Bell and his partners offered to sell the patent for the telephone to Western Union for $100,000. But the president of Western Union refused it, asking sarcastically, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy?''
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