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As it expanded, the company was first renamed Connecticut Telephone, and then Southern New England Telephone in 1882. [23] The site of the first telephone exchange was granted a designation as a National Historic Landmark on 23 April 1965. However it was withdrawn in 1973 in order to demolish the building and construct a parking garage.
1931: The Ericsson DBH 1001 telephone was the first telephone without a separate ringer box. [32] 25 April 1935: First telephone call around the world by wire and radio. [23] 1937: The Western Electric type 302 telephone becomes available for service in the United States. 8 December 1937: Opening of fourth transcontinental telephone line. [23]
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
The first inventor of a telephone was Phillip Reis of Germany only musical not articulating. The first person to publicly exhibit a telephone for transmission of articulate speech was A. G. Bell. The first practical commercial telephone for transmission of articulate speech was invented by myself.
The world's first telephone exchange took place on Jan. 28, 1878. Three weeks later, Coy published a list of New Haven's 50 phone subscribers (names of people and businesses only, as phone numbers ...
Pedro II of Brazil was the first person to buy stock in the Bell Telephone Company. One of the first telephones in a private residence was installed in his palace in Petrópolis, his summer retreat forty miles (sixty-four kilometres) from Rio de Janeiro. [112] In January 1915, Bell made the first ceremonial transcontinental telephone call.
This little-known love temple to telephones, located in a former AT&T administration building in downtown Albuquerque, boasts more than 1,000 telephones. Some of them can still ring off the hook ...
1900: first television displayed only black and white images. Over the next decades, colour television were invented, showing images that were clearer and in full colour. 1914: First North American transcontinental telephone calling; 1927: Television. See: History of television; 1927: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.K.–U.S.