Scribd
Upload
18 views3 pages

The Telephone Story: Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was granted the first patent for the telephone in 1876 after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. However, the invention of the telephone involved many claims and counterclaims from inventors like Elisha Gray, worsening due to lawsuits between them. While its appearance has changed over time, the modern telephone is the result of contributions from many individuals to transmitting the human voice through cables and switching equipment.

Uploaded by

Chris Shanahan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
18 views3 pages

The Telephone Story: Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was granted the first patent for the telephone in 1876 after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. However, the invention of the telephone involved many claims and counterclaims from inventors like Elisha Gray, worsening due to lawsuits between them. While its appearance has changed over time, the modern telephone is the result of contributions from many individuals to transmitting the human voice through cables and switching equipment.

Uploaded by

Chris Shanahan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

The Telephone Story The story of the telephone is the story of change, of relentless search for new methods

and materials to transmit the human voice. Much of the progress achieved has been in terms of cables and switching equipment invisible to the user who is more familiar with the instrument he sees. The modern telephone is the result of work done by many people, all worthy of recognition of their contributions to the field. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, an "apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically" after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. However, the history of the invention of the telephone is a confusing mass of claims and counterclaims, further worsened by lawsuits which attempted to resolve the patent claims of several individuals. In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the Patent Office within an hour of each other; Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray and

Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won. Here is what the telephone has looked like over the years.........

Posters
Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent on his telephone in 1876. He demonstrated it to visitors to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition that same year. In early 1878, he installed the first telephone exchange, in New Haven, Connecticut. The first telephone "book" - actually just a single 14 cm. x 21 cm. sheet - was issued in New Haven in 1878. By the way, a New Haven telephone book issued later in 1878, containing numerous pages and including advertisements, sold at auction in 2008 for $170,500. This was purportedly the first telephone book with more than one sheet of paper. Another Fact I Interesting Was That Alexander Graham Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.

You might also like