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The Invention
In 1876, Graham Alexander Bell invented the first ever Telephone. -
the history of the telephone
Antonio Meucci, 1854, constructed telephone-like devices. Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. -
In 1877 the very first permanent outdoor telephone wire was completed
It stretched a distance of 3 miles.This was closely followed in the U.S. in the world's first commercial telephone service. -
the history of the telephone
The first electrical transmissions of sound happened in early 1878 and by 1881 New Zealand had its first telephone exchange - in Christchurch