London hosted the first exchange put into practice outside the United States in 1879. The following year, in 1877, the first telephone system was put in place in Hartford, Connecticut, whilst the first exchange which linked two cities, was established between both Boston and New York in 1883.
The Bell Telephone Company (AT&T) was soon established and grew to be the largest telephone company in existence. Bell said, "Come here, Watson, I want you" which Watson successfully heard via the receiver and the invention of the telephone was complete. The first comprehensible telephone conversation was said to have taken place between Bell and his assistant, who was sitting in another room. Bell worked effortlessly, whereas Gray became disheartened by the exhausting invention process.
Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell (a Scottish inventor), both worked hard to produce the equipment, and amazingly both filed for a patent within hours of one another, Bell beating his rival by merely two hours on February 14th, 1876.ĭespite Gray building the initial diaphragm / electromagnetic receiver two years prior, he was unable to produce a working version of his transmitter until after Bell. This idea was elaborated on by two men in the United States, who simultaneously began experimenting and creating what would be known as the telephone. The apparatus had many flaws, incapable of transmitting many frequencies and therefore was never fully developed. This was the basic principle of the telephone, but no one made use of such technology until 1861, when German inventor, Johann Reis, successfully built an apparatus that converted sound to electricity and back again. Sounds simple enough, but it took many years and an array of different inventors to finally succeed with the technology.Īs early as 1831, Michael Faraday proved that vibrations of metal could be converted into electrical impulses.
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The idea behind the telephone is simple, a system which converts sound into a series of electrical impulses of differing frequencies, and then reverses this procedure to re-create the sound, typically a human voice. One of the most important and revolutionary inventions which impacts greatly upon modern day communication is the invention of the telephone. Posted on Augby Jamie Slaughter, with 32767 views
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