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History of the Telephone

By bk88

  • 1st Demonstrated Apparatus

    1st Demonstrated Apparatus
    SourceJohann Phillip Reis invented the Reis telephone. You would talk into a wooden carved ear with a piece of metal inside connected to a battery. This would cause the metal to vibrate and the sound would travel to the other end. First spoken word transmitted.
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    History of the Telephone

  • Apparatus

    SourcePhillip Reis built a device that would change sound to electricity and back to sound.

  • Alexander Graham Bell discovers the principle of the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell discovers the principle of the telephone
    SourceAlexander Graham Bell decides to try and transmit the human voice instead of working on harmonic telegraph. He got a partner Watson to help him. Watson was an electrician at the time.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
    Source Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Watson transmit a complete sentence on the telephone. Bell then got a patent on February 14. Elisha Gray files patent caveat on February 14, hours after Bell.

  • Alexander Graham bell receives a Patent

    Alexander Graham bell receives a Patent
    SourceAlexander Graham Bell got his patent on Mach 7 from the Patent Office. On March 10 he got the phone to actually work well.

  • First Telephone Exchange

    First Telephone Exchange
    SourceFirst telephone exchange is opened in the United States. It was opened under he licenses of the Bell Telephone.

  • AT&T Started

    AT&T Started
    Source 2SourceAT&T was invented to connect local Bell companies. The American telephone and telegraph company was started on March 3. AT&T completed its first telephone line from New York to Philadelphia.

  • Everyone in the US is connected by the Telephone

    Everyone in the US is connected by the Telephone
    SourceThe Bell Company completed the US transcontinental telephone line, this connected everyone in the US by phone.

  • First Mobil Phone in Cars put into Service

    First Mobil Phone in Cars put into Service
    Source 2SourceThe first Mobil phone was put into service inside cars. Phones were linked to the telephone network by the radio.

  • Cell Phone Invented

    Cell Phone Invented
    SourceDr. Martin Cooper was working for Motorola and placed a call to his rival Joel Engel on a prototype cell phone, while walking on the streets in New York. Joel Engel was working at AT&T. The prototype was called the Motorola DynaTAC.

  • Internet on the Phone

    Internet on the Phone
    SourceThe Phone Web was invented. This allowed businesses to access the internet from their phones.

  • Where are we? Where (realistically) do you think telephones are headed in the future?

    Where are we? Where (realistically) do you think telephones are headed in the future?
    I think cell phones will have holograms and there will be a faster internet. I also think that telephones will be clearer and bigger.