Title: History of the Telephone | From The 1880s To Current Time
Headings: History of the Telephone
History of the Telephone
Early Telephones
Mechanical Acoustic Devices
1700s: Scientist Theorizes You Can Transmit Messages Through Electricity
Before We Had Electrical Telephones, We First Needed Electrical Telegraphs
Limitations of the Telegraph: Why Did We Need a Telephone?
Who Invented the Telephone?
Bell Invents the Telephone
The First Telephone Line is Constructed in 1877
The First Telephone Switchboards
Bell Telephone Company
History of Pay Phones
Types of Telephones
Exchanges, Tap Dialing, and Rotary Dialing
Candlestick Phones
Touch Tone Phones
Cordless Phones
The First Cell Phones
The First Telephone Book

Content: The telegraph was only popular because it was the only way to transmit messages over long distances at this point in time. The two biggest problems with the telegraph were its dot and dash Morse code system, which limited the device to only receiving and sending one message at a time, as well as its reliance on physical lines. A break anywhere in the line – including in undersea intercontinental cables – would disable the system. Telegraphs were also limited by their reliance on repeaters, which needed to be placed along the telegraph line to ensure the signal could reach long distances. Repeaters weren’t just automatic relay stations: they were stations where a technician had to receive the signal, then re-transmit that signal down the line. Understandably, the world needed a telephone to improve global communications. Who Invented the Telephone? If someone asked you who invented the telephone, you’d probably answer Alexander Graham Bell. But just like schoolkids used to learn that Edison invented electricity, this invention story isn’t always true.