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: Nevertheless, thanks to US patents, we know who invented the telephone from a practical standpoint: the Bell and Edison patents were commercially decisive because they dominated telephone technology. Over the years, these patents would hold up in numerous court decisions across America. The six inventors typically credited with invented some type of electrical telephony device include: Alexander Graham Bell: Bell received the first US patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Bell used his own musical or harmony approach as a practical solution to the telegraph’s problems – Bell’s harmonic telegraph was based on the idea that several notes could be sent along the way simultaneously as long as the notes or signals had different pitches. Thomas Edison: Edison is credited with inventing the carbon microphone, which “produced a strong telephone signal.” Antonio Meucci: