Title: The History of Communication Technology -
Headings: The History of Communication Technology
The History of Communication Technology
Feel free to embed or share this infographic
Letters
Morse Code and the Telegraph
Printing Press
Telephone
Radio
Television
Email
Cell Phone

Content: The History of the Printing Press
Developing the Printing Press
All About Johannes Gutenberg
An Early Printing Press
The Gutenberg Bible
Cultural Impact of the Printing Press
An Example of Movable Type
Telephone
After the telegraph was invented, others continued to experiment with electromagnets and their potential in telecommunication devices. With so many active inventors sharing ideas and developing machines with overlapping concepts, there is some dispute as to the original inventor of the telephone. However in 1876, one man, Alexander Graham Bell, did succeed legally by securing a patent for his version of the telephone, and so he is remembered best in association with this invention. Several decades earlier, telephone-type devices required the listener to speak and listen through the same piece. Later, the phone evolved into a device where the listener had to hold one piece to their ear and speak into the main phone unit. A later version, the model with which we are more familiar with today, included both earpiece and mouth piece on one handle. Many telephone operators were also later replaced by self-dialing systems. A History of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
The Story of Bell’s Telephone
Early 1900s Telephone Operators
First-Hand Accounts of Early Phone Technology
Old Telephones and Prototypes
The Telephone’s Evolution
Fun fact: Conference Calls Unlimited was one of the first conference call providers on the Internet. We’ve been online since 1998!