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Content: A rider on a horse could take days — maybe even weeks — to deliver a message in the sparsely populated old west. The telegraph 
(assuming the wires and poles were in place) was virtually instantaneous. Of 
course, the telegraph was just the first of a string of inventions throughout 
history that threatened the existing order of things. As we will soon see, newspapers were threatened by radio, and films were threatened by both radio and television. The Telephone Is Invented
Another famous utterance that was soon regretted: "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." Western Union internal memo, 1876
Not too long after the telegraph was invented, Alexander Graham Bellwas credited with inventing an even better way of communicating: the telephone. Although Bell has been commonly associated with this invention, 
at this point in the history of technology it appears that Bell didn't actually 
invent the telephone -- or for that matter Guglielmo Marconi didn't actually 
invent the radio and Thomas Edison didn't invent the electric light.