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This timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone. 1844: Innocenzo Manzetti first suggests the idea of an electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone. 1849: Antonio Meucci demonstrates a communicating device to individuals in Havana.
This article describes the functional components of the modern telephone and traces the historical development of the telephone instrument. In addition it describes the development of what is known as the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
Philipp Reis, 1861, constructed the first telephone, today called the Reis telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876.
From the controversy surrounding the first telephone to the development of the telephone network, all offer an insight into the minds of the pioneers who helped shape the modern understanding of our world.
The rise of the telephone changed the way we live, work and play, and contributed to the invention of television, computers, pagers, fax machines, e-mail, the Internet, online stock trading and more. Explore our timeline below highlighting just a few of these extraordinary leaps of innovation and invention.
The rise of the telephone and associated industries has produced some of the most incredible technological changes in the history of humankind, and all within little more than one hundred twenty-five years. This timeline charts just a few of these extraordinary leaps of innovation and invention.
This timeline shows the history of telephones from the 1800s through today. 20th-century developments Telephones gradually became commonplace in homes throughout the early 20th century, transforming from a curiosity of the elite to a necessity for many.
Invention of the Telephone: Complete History and Timeline. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. There is no clear evidence of the origin of the word 'telephone'. It is believed that the word telephone is derived from two Greek words, 'tele' meaning 'far', and 'phone' meaning 'sound'.
The history of the telephone started in 1876 with Alexander Graham Bell’s invention, which made it possible to transmit speech over wires.
The transformation seemed nearly complete by September 1915, when Vail spoke into a telephone in New York and his voice traveled by telephone line to a wireless transmitter (built by AT&T) at...