Telephone History Fact
What Do the Emperor of Brazil and Alexander Graham Bell Have to Do with Each Other?
Dom Pedro II reigned in Brazil between July 18, 1841 and November 15, 1889, the date of the proclamation of the Brazilian Republic.
You see, in 1876 Dom Pedro II and the American President Ulysses S. Grant opened the exhibition of Philadelphia, when and where Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 to 2 August 1922) demonstrated his new invention: the beginning of a whole new era of progress for humanity, the phone.
In that occasion many did not pay much attention to the small invent, but Dom Pedro did. On that occasion, he mentioned the classic William Shakespeare in Hamlet: To be or not to be, then to exclaim: This thing speaks! (Wikipedia)
Dom Pedro II was so the first Brazilian to use a telephone. He actually had relevant participation in the disclosure and the subsequent funding of the invention.
According to the Telephone Museum in 1879, only 12 years later, an imperial decree by Dom Pedro II authorized the operation of the first telephone company in the country. The first phones were installed in Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
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