Robert G. Brown
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Robert G. Brown Jr. (1857 - aft. 1940) was an American engineer who invented the first telephone handset, in 1878. The Gold and Stock Exchange in New York used a few of the handsets. They were not accepted by the Bell Company until nearly fifty years later, when they began being used in the United States. Robert G. Brown graduated from Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (which became what's today known as NYU Tandon School of Engineering) in 1868.{{cite web|url=http://archive.poly.edu/poly_ebriefs/archives/Feb03.htm|title=ePoly Briefs|publisher=Polytechnic Institute of New York University|accessdate=12 March 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225948/http://archive.poly.edu/poly_ebriefs/archives/Feb03.htm|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.poly.edu/multimedia/photos/2011/04/i2e-invention-gallery?picture=12|title=i2e Invention Gallery
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Europe connection
Brown went to France with the hope that there would be more receptivity to his idea. In 1879, the Société Générale des Téléphones produced a telephone using Brown's handset design, which became popular in Europe.{{cite book|author1=Peter John Povey|author2=Reg A. J. Earl|title=Vintage Telephones of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0myM3EPmrBYC&pg=PA41|accessdate=8 December 2012|year=1988|publisher=IET|isbn=978-0-86341-140-3|page=41}}{{cite web|url=http://dssmhi1.fas.harvard.edu/emuseumdev/code/emuseum.asp?action=advsearch&newsearch=1&profile=people&rawsearch=constituentid/,/is/,/895/,/false/,/true&style=single&searchdesc=Robert%20G.%20Brown|title=People: Robert G. Brown|work=Department of History & Science|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=9 December 2012}}
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Category:19th-century American inventors
Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni