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  2. 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).

  3. 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

  4. 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 ...

  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. Category:Telephone connectors - Wikipedia

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  7. 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.

  8. Al Gross (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross (/ ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone.

  9. 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 ...