"Invent Help" Invention Newsletter - March 2008

Taxes are Easier than Ever with Helpful Software Inventions and Websites

In case you’ve been ducking the relentless media coverage of tax season, April 15th is the last day you can file your 2007 taxes without penalty. In years past, you had two options for doing your taxes: cough up the fee to have a professional tax preparer complete your return or run the risk of doing them yourself. Here at InventHelp®, we get very few tax-related inventions, but nevertheless – there are inventions on the Web or in software that can make life easier around tax time!

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What You Don’t Know About Alexander Graham Bell

When there’s a great breakthrough, there’s sometimes great controversy. If you recall our InventHelp® newsletter story a few months ago about the Davy vs. Stevenson invention feud, the fame and recognition achieved by great inventions can be simply irresistible, enough so that people are willing to go to unsavory lengths.

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Ever wondered how telephone on-hold music and messaging were invented?

Alfred Levy owned a factory next door to a radio station. In 1962, he noticed his telephone system's on-hold line was picking up the station's signal. He later discovered it was because an exposed wire came in contact with a metal girder. Instead of fixing the problem, Levy took the idea and ran with it. In 1966, Levy patented "Music On-Hold."

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