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: Today, we’re going to explain the history of the telephone. Early Telephones
You may already know that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in the 1880s. But Bell didn’t invent this device out of thin air: early telephones had started being developed as early as the 1660s. Yes, these telephones were incredibly primitive compared to Bell’s telephone, but they still deserve to be mentioned. Mechanical Acoustic Devices
Early telephones are more accurately called “mechanical acoustic devices”. Instead of transforming audio energy into electrical energy, these devices simply transmitted voice data mechanically – like through pipes and other media. Using these basic devices, users could transmit speech and music over distances greater than you would be able to transmit if you were speaking (or yelling). One of the best-known examples of this technology is called the tin can telephone, also known as the lover’s phone. It’s the same types of “phones” you created in elementary school when you were younger: