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26 August 1854 — Charles Bourseul published an article in the magazine L'Illustration (Paris) describing a 'make-and-break' type telephone transmitter.
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1 Janurary 1876- Alexander Grahmn Bell started working on the phone
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10 March 1876 - Alexander Grahmn Bell finished the first ever telephone.
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18 March 1892- Alexander Grahmn bell recorded the first ever long distance call its words were " Mr Waston, come here I want to see you".
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During a two year period in the early 1930s, telephones in service declined by 10% across the nation and Western Electric laid off 85% of its work force. The only thing keeping Western from an almost total lay off was its conversion of manual telephones t
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The Bakelite telephone was the second phone invented in the 1930s. This type of phone is a rotary phone which means you have to spin the buttons instead of push them to dial a number.
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The 1960s saw telephones that were design-oriented. Western Electric introduced the "Princess" phone and the "Trimline" soon followed. Also at this time, the first "Touchtone" phones were introduced.
