TELEPHONES

By IRAIUKY

  • Acoustic string telephone

    Acoustic string telephone
    Robert Hooke creates an acoustic string telephone that conveys sounds over a taut extended wire by mechanical vibrations

  • Speaking telegraph

    Innocenzo Manzetti first suggests the idea of an electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone.

  • Basic phone

    While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.

  • Telephone transmitter

    Charles Bourseul publishes a description of a make-and-break telephone transmitter and receiver in L'Illustration, (Paris) but does not construct a working instrument.

  • Telephone and secured

    Alexander Graham Bell successfully received a patent for the telephone and secured the rights to the discovery. Days later, he made the first ever telephone call to his partner, Thomas Watson.