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Automatic telephone exchanges made communication faster, but led to the disappearance of one of Britain’s first female workforces. Telephones save lives: The history of the Samaritans Find out how this vital service, started by one man with a telephone, was made possible by advancements in communication technology.
1858: The first transatlantic telephone cable was laid, headed by Cyrus Field. This connected the U.S. and England by telegraph. 1876: Teacher Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. He wanted to find a way to transmit speech electronically. 1927: The first transatlantic phone call is made from the U.S. to the U.K.
May 26, 2022 · Updated on May 26, 2022. Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847–August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and engineer best known for inventing the first practical telephone in 1876, founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877, and a refinement of Thomas Edison’s phonograph in 1886. Greatly influenced by the deafness ...
Feb 16, 2022 · Elisha Gray made his telephone in 1876, the same year as Alexander Graham Bell. Here is where the story gets interesting. Gray had signed the documents, had them notarized, and submitted them to the US Patent Office on the 14th of February, 1876. The very same morning, Bell’s lawyer submitted a patent application.
Feb 22, 2022 · Alexander Graham Bell's Family Papers (Library of Congress) - The collection includes "correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. Dates span from 1862 to 1939, but the bulk of the materials are from 1865 to 1920."
Dec 3, 2012 · Telephones. The invention of the telegraph (1837) by Samuel Morse and the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell were milestones in the quest to communicate over great distances with reliability, accuracy and speed. Previously, communication over distance necessarily entailed encoding human thought through such means as drum and smoke ...
This timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone.. Charles Bourseul Johann Philipp Reis Elisha Gray Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Augustus Watson Tivadar Puskás Emile Berliner Charles Sumner Tainter Theodore Newton Vail
