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The history of AT&T can be traced back during the time '''Alexander Graham Bell’’’, inventor of the telephone. In 1975, '''Gardiner Hubbard’’’ and '''Thomas Sanders’’’ agreed to provide financial support for Alexander Graham Bell to invent the telephone. <ref>[http://www.corp.att.com/history/history1.html Origins of AT&T]</ref>  On July 1, 1875, Bell was able to transmit speech sounds through electricity however they can’t be understood. He drafted a patent application and specification for his invention and labeled it as “improvement in telegraphy” with a description as the talking telegraphy. He delayed his patent application because of a promise made to another investor named George Brown that he will not file a U.S. patent until a patent is applied in Britain. However, Gardiner Hubbard filed the patent application to the United States Patent Office without Bell’s knowledge on February 14, 1876. Bell received his first patent # 174, 465 on March 10 on that same year. Bell continued experimenting on his device. On March 10, 1876, he used his latest design, a liquid transmitter hooked to an electric circuit in transmitting the first spoken words to his assistant Thomas Watson. At his end, Watson heard clearly Bell’s statement, “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” <ref>[http://www.corp.att.com/history/inventing2.html Inventing the Telephone]</ref>  The first telephone was invented and subsequently on January 30, 1877 Bell’s second patent # 186, 787 was issued to him by the U.S. Patent Office.<ref>