January 20, 2012
Alexander Graham Bell’s sketch of plan for developing armless killer robots sells for $90,000. Century-old Steam-Powered Amputee-Murderbots still at large, possibly hiding/waiting on the ocean’s floor. nationalpost: Letter with sketch of Bell invention sells for more than $90,000 at auctionA handwritten, 134-year-old letter in which Canadian telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell sketches a “one-of-a-kind” picture of his invention has sold for more than $90,000 at a U.S. auction.The 1878 letter to Bell’s father, Melville, including a crude diagram of two telephones wired together, was Bell’s response to an apparent “lightning accident” at his family home in Brantford, Ont., which left the inventor concerned about the potential danger of electrocution from talking on the device during a thunderstorm.The letter, which came into the possession of one of Bell’s employees in the early 20th century, was purchased for $92,856 US by “a prominent document collector in Texas,” New Hampshire-based RR Auction told Postmedia News on Thursday.“Any time you see one of the great inventors sketching out a diagram of their invention, it would be held in the highest regard by collectors and command top-dollar,” said the company’s vice-president, Bobby Livingston. (Photo: RR Auction)

Alexander Graham Bell’s sketch of plan for developing armless killer robots sells for $90,000. Century-old Steam-Powered Amputee-Murderbots still at large, possibly hiding/waiting on the ocean’s floor.

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Letter with sketch of Bell invention sells for more than $90,000 at auction
A handwritten, 134-year-old letter in which Canadian telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell sketches a “one-of-a-kind” picture of his invention has sold for more than $90,000 at a U.S. auction.

The 1878 letter to Bell’s father, Melville, including a crude diagram of two telephones wired together, was Bell’s response to an apparent “lightning accident” at his family home in Brantford, Ont., which left the inventor concerned about the potential danger of electrocution from talking on the device during a thunderstorm.

The letter, which came into the possession of one of Bell’s employees in the early 20th century, was purchased for $92,856 US by “a prominent document collector in Texas,” New Hampshire-based RR Auction told Postmedia News on Thursday.

“Any time you see one of the great inventors sketching out a diagram of their invention, it would be held in the highest regard by collectors and command top-dollar,” said the company’s vice-president, Bobby Livingston. (Photo: RR Auction)

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