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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.
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 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 ...
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).
The history of the telephone started in 1876 with Alexander Graham Bell’s invention, which made it possible to transmit speech over wires.
Joseph Henry lays the groundwork for the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone and the telephone goes national.
Within a year, thousands of people in America owned telephones. Other remarkable inventions related to the telephone are the rotatory dial, invented in 1892; the cordless phone, invented in 1965; and the mobile phone, invented in 1983. Here is the detailed chronology of the telephone.
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.
A timeline showing key dates in the life of Scottish-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell. He is famous for creating one of the world’s most important communication devices—the telephone. He was also an important innovator in a number of other fields.
From Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Hubble Space Telescope, this timeline covers some of America's technological innovations and inventions.