Alexander Graham Bell, typesetter

The purpose of a business card is to exchange contact information. Two hundred years ago, this would have been where you lived or worked, a note to remind people of your address in the promotion of your business.

It’s been widely believed that Alexander Graham Bell had a less-than successful business card company and invented the telephone as a means to create additional contact information — a series of numbers nobody could possibly remember — therefore demand would increase for his sole passion, printing.

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