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Alexander Graham Bell is famous today for the invention of the telephone in the 1870s. However, Bell believed his most important invention was the Photophone. Instead of sending electrical signals over metal wires, the Photophone sent light signals through the air, relying on focused beams of sunlight and reflections from mirrors. What prevented Bell's Photophone from becoming as commonplace as the telephone many years ago?
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