His most famous invention made him rich, but he thought his greatest invention was the harnessing of light beams to achieve a similar result as his first success. (Indeed it's an idea decades ahead of its time.) His wife, however, had no use for either of these inventions, but many other men's wives did. Who was he, and why the apparent irony at his wife's indifference?

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Alexander Graham Bell probably thought he had better ideas sending telegraphs over the wire in a wide variety of ways. Before the telephone there was his other big invention - the harmonic telegraph, which could send multipal telegraphs over a wire simultaneously. He thought there were other, better ways of transfering information (such as the photophone, a transmiter using lightwaves), but nothing would come of those inventions. His wife wouldn't have cared about the telephone on account of her deafness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell Jul 31 10, 8:39 PM