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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
The early history of the telephone became and still remains a confusing morass of claims and counterclaims, which were not clarified by the huge number of lawsuits filed in order to resolve the patent claims of the many individuals and commercial competitors. The Bell and Edison patents, however, were commercially decisive, because they ...
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.
Because of illness and other commitments, Bell made little or no telephone improvements or experiments for eight months until after his U.S. patent 174,465 was published., [28] but within a year the first telephone exchange was built in Connecticut and the Bell Telephone Company was created in 1877, with Bell the owner of a third of the shares ...
As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers.
The master telephone patent, 174465, granted to Bell, March 7, 1876 The electric telephone was invented in the 1870s, based on earlier work with harmonic (multi-signal) telegraphs . The first commercial telephone services were set up in 1878 and 1879 on both sides of the Atlantic in the cities of New Haven , Connecticut in the US and London ...
The Telephone and Its Several Inventors: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Evenson, A. Edward (2000). The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray – Alexander Bell Controversy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Fischer, Claude S. (1994) America calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940 (Univ of California Press, 1994)
The history of AT&T dates back to the invention of the telephone.The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell, who obtained the first US patent for the telephone, and his father-in-law, Gardiner Greene Hubbard.