{"id":93002,"date":"2026-02-16T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/?p=93002"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:53:17","slug":"alexander-graham-bell-the-stamp-the-phone-and-the-metal-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/alexander-graham-bell-the-stamp-the-phone-and-the-metal-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Graham Bell: The Stamp, The Phone\u2026 and the Metal Detector?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Alexander Graham Bell: The Stamp, The Phone\u2026 and the Metal Detector?!\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iGW3Q7iIfZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexander Graham Bell isn\u2019t just the \u201ctelephone guy.\u201d He\u2019s also featured in the Famous Americans Stamp Series &#8211; the 1940s postage set honoring major innovators who changed the world. Bell earned his spot for inventing the telephone\u2026 but here\u2019s the twist most people don\u2019t know: He also invented one of the first metal detectors, originally created in an attempt to locate a bullet lodged in President James Garfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Graham Bell isn\u2019t just the \u201ctelephone guy.\u201d He\u2019s also featured in the Famous Americans Stamp Series &#8211; the 1940s postage set honoring major innovators who changed the world. Bell earned his spot for inventing the telephone\u2026 but here\u2019s the twist most people don\u2019t know: He also invented one of the first metal detectors, originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youtube"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93005,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93002\/revisions\/93005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}