Voice of Connection: The Handset That Rang the World

Alexander Graham Bell might have patented the telephone, but the first telephone handset was invented in Sweden in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson, exploiting the fact that Bell's patent didn't cover the Nordic countries. (Though, fun fact: Italian Antonio Meucci beat them both to the punch!) Ericsson's clever design birthed the world's first public telephone exchange in Stockholm, paving the way for a telecom revolution that still echoes today.