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also the first so called telephone
Antonio Meucci -
electric telegraph
1844: Innocenzo Manzetti first suggests the idea of an electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone. -
transmitter receiver
1854: Charles Bourseul publishes a description of a make-and-break telephone transmitter and receiver in but does not construct a working instrument -
newyork
1872: Professor Vanderwyde demonstrated Reis's telephone in New York -
the second telephone
this one was invented by elisha gray -
the first telephone
the first telephone was invented by alexander graham bell -
thomas edison
16 May 1876: Thomas Edison files first patent application for acoustic telegraphy for which U.S. patent 182,996 was granted October 10, 1876. -
loose contact
4 March 1877: Emile Berliner invents a microphone based on "loose contact" between two metal electrodes, an improvement on Reis' Telephone, and in April 1877 files a caveat of an invention in process. -
only in new york and boston
4 September 1884: Opening of telephone service between New York and Boston -
london to newyork
7 March 1926: First transatlantic telephone call, from London to New York -
mobil phone call
1946: first commercial mobile phone call -
touch tone
1961: Initiation of Touch-Tone service trials -
celluar phone device
1971: AT&T submitted a proposal for cellular phone service to the U.S. -
caller id
1982: Caller ID patented by Carolyn Doughty, Bell Labs -
he had he idea of a phone
11 June 2002: Antonio Meucci is recognized for "...his work in the invention of the telephone" (but not "...for inventing the telephone")
