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From the article:

“In that strongest ever Carrington Event there were reports of telegraph lines sparking with the voltages induced in them,” Alan Woodward, a professor of computer science and space weather expert at England’s University of Surrey, previously told Newsweek”.

The telephone was invented in 1926?

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"The telephone was invented in 1926?"

The telegraph was invented in 1844 and the telephone was patented in 1876.