A humble twisted wire that connected billions of devices around the world — and still shows no signs of stepping down.
A Brief History
It all started in 1881, when Alexander Graham Bell — yes, the same man who invented the telephone — patented a method of twisting telephone wires together. The problem was straightforward: early telephone lines were run in parallel, and they interfered with each other terribly. Listeners heard noise, fragments of other conversations, and hum from electric lamps. Bell noticed that twisting two wires together dramatically reduced mutual interference.
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