Valentine's Day & Telephones
What did you think about on Valentine's Day? Telephones, I hope. On February 14, 1876, Anthony Pollok and Marcellus Bailey, two Washington D.C. lawyers, filed Alexander Graham Bell's original telephone patent application. They did so under direction of Gardiner Hubbard, Bell's chief promoter. At the time Bell did not know what Gardiner had ordered; A.G. was waiting for foreign patents on the telephone to be taken out first, what he thought was necessary before filing in the United States. Gardiner had tired of waiting and a good thing his impatience was, that application resulted in the most valuable patent ever issued. For more on telephone history click here.