Title: TELEPHONE: The most important invention of modern time. by Lynn Byron
Headings: TELEPHONE: The most important invention of modern time.
TELEPHONE: The most important invention of modern time.
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•The first telephone operators only answered the phone when they felt
like it. The operator would pick up the phone and say, “Number please.”
If the number wasn't busy, the operator took a chord and plugged it into a switchboard. This connected the caller to the number. The operator system changed because there were too many people with telephones, and it cost too much money to have that many operators working.
•These first operators needed to have good memories to know which people went with which plugs. In the 1880’s in Lowell, Massachusetts, there was a measles epidemic. The doctors were worried that if all the operators got the measles, then nobody would be able to control the telephone operating system. A doctor suggested that rather than relying on operator’s memories, each person should be assigned a number. This is how the telephone number came into play.
Early telephones were nothing like the ones we have today. The first telephone did not have a bell, so the caller had to tap the phone with a hammer to let the receiver know a call was being sent to them. It was Thomas Watson who invented the bell.
•In the 1940’s, after World War II, telephones became very popular but it was too expensive for each home to have its own line, so the party line system was created. Although each home would have its own telephone, the party line system had between two and four homes sharing a single phone line. This meant that you could pick up your telephone and listen to your neighbor’s conversations.
The 1800’s was a time for advancement.
•The pushbutton telephone was invented in 1941. Then a transmitter was invented by Walter
Hauser Britain in 1947 to amplify the sound across the wires. This meant that calls could
be sent longer distances. The first active satellite for telephones was launched in 1962.
It was called Echo I and it orbited the earth once every 157 hours. This was important
because telephone calls could now be made across oceans without relying on
under-sea cables which broke frequently and were sometimes snacks for sharks!
In 1964, a non-moving satellite was launched into space. Touch tone service
became available in 1963.
•Many of these advancements have made our lives today easier.
Prior to the telephone, telecommunications as we know it today with radio, television and the Internet did not exist. The only form of electrical communication was the telegraph, which was extremely expensive, very limited in deployment and even difficult to use (you had to memorize codes for each letter of the alphabet, and have good manual dexterity to operate one).
•When you understand that prior to the invention of the telephone almost all people had very limited means of communication, you can see that life was very different in that era. Information for the most part moved only at the speed of a person carrying it, or that of a wagon, train or mail ship. Communication between the Americas and Europe was occasionally delayed by weeks or even months due to severe winter storms. People who needed emergency services frequently suffered and died due to the slowness of communications without telephones. Important news stories of distant events were often published in newspapers days or even weeks after they occurred.
•A phone call works by going through the telephone wire and then to a radio wave. The radio wave sends it to the nearest transmitter, which sends it to the nearest telephone wire of the person receiving the call. To transmit calls, they used to use copper wires. Today, fiber optic cables and laser lights are used.
•Alexander Bell historically invented the telephone. However, there was another inventor at the same time with the identical idea; Elisha Gray independently designed a device that could transmit speech electrically as well. Even though they both went to the patent office on the same day, Bell arrived first so he was the one to receive the patent on the telephone. This started a legal battle between the two over the invention of the telephone and the conflict became quite famous.
In 1876, at the age of twenty-nine, Alexander Graham Bell designed the telephone; A wire-based electrical system that would eventually become one of the most important inventions in history.
•Within just a few years of the telephone’s invention, tens of thousands had been built and placed into service in both North America and Europe because it satisfied the important human social need for communication.
The telephone has played a huge role in human society since that time and spurred the creation of many inventions such as the cell phone, the internet, and even satellites. It is still widely used today, is vital to how modern business functions, and allows for an incredible speed of communication.
•It has been said that Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone to help his few family members as they suffered from hearing problems. So communication could be held without actually having to walk over to a person and talk to them face to face and to create a way to rapidly communicate over long distances.
The history of the telephone is an amazing one. Several people were developing a device that would transmit and receive the human voice.
•The telephone is considered a very important invention because it has
provided various benefits: it has offered a fast communication mode
for us and is used for private and commercial use, has reduced
the distances and people can communicate with each other in
just a couple of seconds and it is the cheapest mode of
interaction. The development of internet infrastructure is
also possible because of telephone. The telephone has even
increased the levels of socialization and interaction among
people and it has played a major role in making this
world a global village.
•By inventing the telephone Alexander changed the way people live.
•The Bell Telephone Company was founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1877 to build a nationwide telephone system. By 1881, there were 132,700 Bell telephones in homes. By 1930, 15,193,000 phones were in service.
•His father, Alexander Melville was a professor of elocution
and speech at Edinburgh University and his mother Eliza was almost deaf, losing her hearing at twelve. It seems only natural that Bell would have an interest in speech.
•The telephone is the most important invention in history because it’s brought people together from different cultures from around the world. It makes communication easier and more efficient.
•Bell experimented with the telegraphy to improve on its uses and this was how he accomplished the invention of the telephone. His understanding of sound and music and his great love of communication aided him in this invention. He figured out that if you use different pitches that several voice notes could be sent at the same time on one wire.
•The telephone was invented by accident when Mr. Bell was trying to invent a device that could send more than one telegram at
the same time. This device took sound waves, converted them
into an electrical current, and then reconverted them back
to sound on the other end, and this is how the
telephone started. Alexander Bell also invented
the microphone and the speaker.
•Telephone is the Greek word for “far sound.” This is how the telephone became what it is today.

Content: People who needed emergency services frequently suffered and died due to the slowness of communications without telephones. Important news stories of distant events were often published in newspapers days or even weeks after they occurred. SOURCES: •A phone call works by going through the telephone wire and then to a radio wave. The radio wave sends it to the nearest transmitter, which sends it to the nearest telephone wire of the person receiving the call. To transmit calls, they used to use copper wires. Today, fiber optic cables and laser lights are used. •Alexander Bell historically invented the telephone. However, there was another inventor at the same time with the identical idea; Elisha Gray independently designed a device that could transmit speech electrically as well.