We were taught in school that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. But there are some things even school doesn't want you to know. Who really invented the telephone?

Bell Telephone was founded by Alexander Graham Bell a year after he'd invented the telephone. That year the company set up the first private phone line: between Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts.

When he was eleven, Bell invented a machine that could clean wheat. He later said that if he had understood electricity at all, he would have been too discouraged to invent the telephone.