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  2. 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 ...

  3. Invention of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Alexander Graham Bell - Wikipedia

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    a Boston University (see below). b See below. c Two died soon after birth. Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈɡreɪ.əm /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

  5. Innovation, Intrigue, Subterfuge, and the Birth of an Industry

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    The name on the first telephone patent, which was granted on March 7, 1876, reads "A.G. Bell" -- Alexander Graham Bell. The reality of its invention is much Innovation, Intrigue, Subterfuge, and ...

  6. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent Drawing Replica of the telettrofono, invented by Antonio Meucci and credited by several sources as the first telephone. [4] Bell placing the first New York to Chicago telephone call in 1892. Before the development of the electric telephone, the term telephone was applied to other inventions, and not all ...

  7. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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    The world's first telephone exchange took place on Jan. 28, 1878. ... A Christmastime measles outbreak in Lowell, Massachusetts, led to the invention of telephone numbers.

  9. Johann Philipp Reis - Wikipedia

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    Johann Philipp Reis. Johann Philipp Reis (German: [ʁaɪs]; 7 January 1834 – 14 January 1874) was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. It was the first device to transmit a voice via electronic signals and for that the first modern telephone ...