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Candlestick Desk Phone
The Candlestick Desk Phone is designed in a horn-shaped earpiece where the people hear the caller and a base shaped like a tall narrow candlestick with a horn-shaped transmitter where the person speaks into.There is a metal hook to hold the receiver.The Candlestick Desk Phone was designed in a great variety of styles with different features. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Born on March 3rd 1847,Alexander Graham Bell was known for inventing the telephone.On March 10th 1876,Alexander Graham Bell had his first phone call to his assistant saying "Watson,come here.I want to see you".He was awarded the first U.S license for the invention of a telephone.It is not said to what telephone he invented but was known for contacting someone through a telephone prototype. Click below for a biography on Alexander Graham Bell
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Antonio Meucci
Antonio Meucci constructed a telephone-like device in 1854. Click below for a biography on Antonio Meucci.
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Johann Philipp Reis
Johann Philipp Reis constructed a prototype called the make and break telephone which today is called a Reis telephone. Click below for a biography on Johann Philipp Reis.
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Telephone Controversy
In the 1870s, two inventors, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell separately designed devices that could send out verbal communication electrically,the telephone.Both rushed their individual designs to the license office.Alexander Graham Bell authorized his telephone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous battle over the invention of the telephone which Alexander Graham Bell won. -
Tivadar Puskás
Tivadar Puskás invented the telephone switchboard in 1876. Click below for a biography on Tivadar Puskás .
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Elisha Gray
Born on August 2nd 1835,Elisha Gray was claimed along with Alexander Graham Bell to be an inventor of the telephone.Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park,Illinois.He is considered by some to be the true inventor of the telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell in a famous battle over the invention of a telephone. Click below for a biography on Elisha Gray
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Converstaion That Changed History
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Telephone Construction
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Almon Strowger
Born in 1839,Almon Strowger invented the Rotary Dial.Almon’s invention was used in different forms until the 1970’s.He was working when he constructed his design.It’s known that he had tried many times before but became frustrated with workings of his telephone.He faced problems when constructing the phone.After his attempts not working,he called the assistant general manager of the telephone company,Herman Ritterhoff to attend to the problem.Ritterhoff knew that there was a fault and got it fix -
Rotary Dial
The Rotary Dial was introduced in 1891.The Rotary Dial was round and had a hole over each number.The Rotary Dial uses electricity to carry sound messages.To dial a number,the caller has to place their finger in the finger hole where the numbers are and rotate the dial clockwise until it reaches the right finger hole.The caller then pulls out their finger and a spring in the dial returns it to the starting position. -
Answering Machine
The Answering Machine is another type of telephone which allows you to leave a message if no one is on the other end when you call.Even though it was not popular,the Answering Machine Telephone originally used cassette tapes to record messages.Throughout the past years,digital Answering Machines replaced the cassette tapes on telephones and people use their voicemails on their cellphones. -
Valdemar Poulsen
Born on November 23rd 1869, Valdemar Poulsen invented the Magnetic Wire Recorder in 1898. Click below for a biography on Valdemar Poulsen
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Cordless Telephone
In 1968,the Cordless Telephone was introduced.The digital signals allowed the phone to be more secure because it was easy to eavesdrop.A Cordless Telephone needs main eletricity to power the base station where the Cordless Telephone sits and charges. -
Push-button Telephone
On November 18th 1963,the first electronic Push-button Telephone was offered by the Bell Telephone Company to customers in Carnegie,Greensburg and Pennsylvania.The Push-button Telephone is mostly used in work places. -
Teri Pall
A jazz musician named Teri Pall invented a version of the Cordless Phone in 1965 but could not put her invention in stores for selling because of its 2 mile (3.2 km) range caused its radio signals to interfere with aircraft communications. In 1968, Teri Pall sold her rights from the Cordless Phone to a manufacturer who modified it for constructive use. -
Website On Telephones
Click below to see a website that I have created about what telephones are and the invention and importance of a telephone. http://change-in-telephones.weebly.com -
Imagine A World Without Telephones
Click below to hear a story about the invention of a telephone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgj6G7IZVc -
Telephones In The Future
I think telephones will be abolished in the future and mobile phones will be held in everybody's hand.Telephones will not be selling in stores and it will have no importance.Mobile phones have been inovated incredibly during the years and it still wil be created with special features that no one will own a telephone because everybody will want the latest mobile phone.
