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First investor in Bell Telephone
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1878
Thomas Sanders was a crucial early investor and the first treasurer of the Bell Telephone Company, essentially financing the invention's development. A successful Haverhill, Massachusetts leather merchant, he funded Alexander Graham Bell in exchange for partnership after hiring him to tutor his deaf son, eventually enabling the 1877 formation of the company.
Timeline events (4)
Bell meets leather merchant Thomas Sanders (who has a deaf son) becoming close friends
Bell reveals his work on the harmonic telegraph to Hubbard and Sanders, who agree to fund his efforts
Bell Patent Association formed so Sanders and Hubbard can share in proceeds from Bell's patents
