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Charles Sumner Tainter was a 19th century inventor and manufacturer of electrical apparatuses. Tainter also worked with Alexander Graham Bell on the radiophone, the first wireless telephone, an instrument for transmitting sound to a distance through the agency of light, using sensitive selenium cells. Between 1879-1880, Tainter and Bell experimented with and tried to improve Edison?s talking machine. He also invented the graphophone, the first commercially practical dictating machine. In total, there were 13 Home Journals, but Volumes 9, 10, and 13 were lost in a fire in 1897.