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  2. Phone connector (audio) - Wikipedia

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    The US military uses a variety of phone connectors including 9 ⁄ 32-inch (0.281-inch, 7.14 mm) and 1 ⁄ 4-inch (0.25 inch, 6.35 mm) diameter plugs. [38] Commercial and general aviation (GA) civil aircraft headsets often use a pair of phone connectors. A standard 1 ⁄ 4-inch (6.3

  3. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone ...

  4. George Sweigert - Wikipedia

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    George H. Sweigert (1920–1999) is credited as the first inventor to patent the cordless telephone. [1]Born in Akron, Ohio, Sweigert served five years in the US Army as a radio operator in World War II in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Fiji and New Georgia assigned to the 145th Headquarters Company under the 37th Infantry Division (United States).

  5. Elisha Gray - Wikipedia

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    Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois.

  6. Invention of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone as early as 1844, and may have made one in 1864, as an enhancement to an automaton built by him in 1849.. Charles Bourseul was a French telegraph engineer who proposed (but did not build) the first design of a "make-and-break" telephone in 1854.

  7. Telephone switchboard - Wikipedia

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    PBX switchboard, 1975. A telephone switchboard is a device used to connect circuits of telephones to establish telephone calls between users or other switchboards. The switchboard is an essential component of a manual telephone exchange, and is operated by switchboard operators who use electrical cords or switches to establish the connections.

  8. Nathan Stubblefield - Wikipedia

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    Nathan Beverly Stubblefield [1] (November 22, 1860 – March 28, 1928) was an American inventor best known for his wireless telephone work. Self-described as a "practical farmer, fruit grower and electrician", [2] he received widespread attention in early 1902 when he gave a series of public demonstrations of a battery-operated wireless telephone, which could be transported to different ...

  9. Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy

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    The Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell controversy concerns the question of whether Gray and Bell invented the telephone independently. This issue is narrower than the question of who deserves credit for inventing the telephone, for which there are several claimants. At issue are roles of each inventor's lawyers, the filing of patent ...