Alexander Graham Bell: The Stamp, The Phone… and the Metal Detector?!

Alexander Graham Bell isn’t just the “telephone guy.” He’s also featured in the Famous Americans Stamp Series – the 1940s postage set honoring major innovators who changed the world. Bell earned his spot for inventing the telephone… but here’s the twist most people don’t know: He also invented one of the first metal detectors, originally created in an attempt to locate a bullet lodged in President James Garfield.

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