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The following is a brief summary of the history of the development of the telephone: Antonio Meucci's telephone. A French Gower telephone of 1912 at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. Early 7th century AD - Chimu culture in Peru invents a string telephone using gourds and stretched hide. The original artifact is in the Smithsonian's ...
The history of telecommunication began with the use of smoke signals and drums in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In the 1790s, the first fixed semaphore systems emerged in Europe. However, it was not until the 1830s that electrical telecommunication systems started to appear. This article details the history of telecommunication and the ...
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up and replaced by a system of competitors.
Innocenzo Manzetti. Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone as early as 1844, and may have made one in 1864, as an enhancement to an automaton built by him in 1849. Charles Bourseul was a French telegraph engineer who proposed (but did not build) the first design of a "make-and-break" telephone in 1854.
Candlestick telephone. A Western Electric desk stand telephone of the 1920s and 30s. The candlestick telephone (or pole telephone) is a style of telephone that was common from the late 1890s to the 1940s. A candlestick telephone is also often referred to as a desk stand, an upright, or a stick phone. Candlestick telephones featured a mouthpiece ...
Alexander Graham Bell ( / ˈɡreɪ.əm /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [ 4] was a Scottish-born [ N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
the first wireless telephone message in the history of the world. the apparatus used in sending the message was the photophone invented by alexander graham bell inventor of the telephone this plaque was placed here by alexander graham bell chapter telephone pioneers of america march 3, 1947 the centennial of dr. bell's birth
The history of communication itself can be traced back since the origin of speech circa 100,000 BCE. [ 1] The use of technology in communication may be considered since the first use of symbols about 30,000 years BCE. Among the symbols used, there are cave paintings, petroglyphs, pictograms and ideograms. Writing was a major innovation, as well ...