Title: History of the Telephone and Communication with Businesses
Headings: History of the Telephone and Communication with Businesses
History of the Telephone and Communication with Businesses
Content: RING MY BELL
The telephone was invented in the 1870s. Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to register the invention of the telephone at the patent office. His competitor Elisha Gray registered a similar patent just a few hours after he did. The telephone came about because they were trying to improve the capabilities of the telegraph. After the telephone was invented, wealthy individuals and large corporations primarily used it as a means of communications between specific locations. This means that the corporation or individual would run the wires themselves between locations. These were called direct lines. Telephone exchanges were set up to centralize the telephone network within a smaller geographic area. This system allowed other individual lines to be connected with each other through a central station. These were the forerunners of switchboards.