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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.. 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
Shows Bell's second telephone transmitter , invented 1876 and first displayed at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia. This history of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
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 in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
Telephone technology grew quickly after the first commercial services emerged, with inter-city lines being built and telephone exchanges in every major city of the United States by the mid-1880s. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The first transcontinental telephone call occurred on January 25, 1915.
The timeline of North American telegraphy is a chronology of notable events in the history of the electric telegraphy in the United States and Canada, including the rapid spread of telegraphic communications starting from 1844 and completion of the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861.
While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time. 2006: America Online drops its old name to officially become AOL and no longer charges for email services ...
Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. 1877: American inventor Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. 1877: German industrialist Werner von Siemens developed a primitive loudspeaker. 1878: First electric street lighting in Paris, France 1878: First hydroelectric plant in Cragside, England 1878
Telephone dial number card of c.1948 with the local telephone number 4-5876 in Atlantic City, NJ, using the central office prefix 4, later converted to AT4 Face of a 1939 rotary telephone dial with the telephone number LA-2697, which includes the first two letters of Lakewood, New Jersey, as the central office prefix, later converted to LA6.