History of the Telephone
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Man has always used some form of communication over the years but the
telephone is one of the greatest technological inventions which made communication
so easy. Before the telephone the telegraph was a very popular method of
communication used by people but the invention of the telephone virtually
displaced the telegraph as a means of communication.
"Mr. Watson, come here, I want you" were the words of the first
telephone call. The call was made by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant
Thomas Watson. The word telephone originated from the Greek words Tele
for afar and Phone for voice. Bell invented the telephone, Watson designed
it. He filed his application for a patent just hours before his competitor
Elisha Gray.
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Most of Bells life revolved around speech and sound, his mother played
music, his father introduced speech system for the deaf and Bell himself
was a vocal physiology professor. Bell started work on harmonic telegraph
which he hoped would be able to send several messages over a single wire.
Testing the harmonic telegraph he heard sounds over a wire of different
pitches. Bell in fact wanted to work on a device which could transmit speech
electrically. Further work on the instrument saw the birth of the telephone
in March 1876; the first telephone was made of a wooden stand, funnel,
a cup of acid and a copper wire.
He formed the Bell telephone company which grew rapidly in 1877 and promoted
his telephone. The first telephone line was constructed in Boston with
the first switchboard being started in Boston in the same year of 1877.
Telephone service between International destinations did not start until
1915. The design of the telephone has also developed over the years starting
with the basic rotary dialing to the more hi tech features like caller
id, call waiting, phone answering service, conferencing to name a few.
