A race to be crowned the telephone inventor
Although, at any time any personthinks about the telephone and who invented it, the name Alexander Graham Bell automatically springs to mind, but it very nearly was not he, as the patenting of the design ended up as a race between Bell and one Elisha Gray. Bell managed to register his design first, which resulted in a major legal battle between the two parties for right to claim to be the inventor of the telephone, which Bell subsequently won, and now history books record the inventor of the telephone to be Alexander Graham Bell.
The telephone was the next evolutionary step from the renowned telegraph system in the area of telecommunications. Like the telegraph the telephone is a wire based electrical system, unlike the telegraph, the telephone system is able to transmit multiple messages along the wire at the same time.
Telegraph System
The telegraph system used Morse Code to transmit messages across the telegraph wire, and only one message can use the telegraph wire at any given time.
Telegraph Becomes The Telephone
Some intrepid inventor types realised that the telegraph wire should be able to transmit multiple signals simultaneously and thus allow the transmission of many messages at the same point.
It was whilst working on finding a solution to the conversion from being able to only transfer one message at a time to the transmission of multiple messages simultaneously, that Alexander Graham Bell and others realised that besides being able to send multiple messages in Morse Code, it was also possible to send different types of signals which resulted in unique types of sound.
Harmonic Telegraph
The first ever sound made was of a twanging clock spring. This happened on the 2nd of June, 1875, whilst Bell was running some experiments.
The Telephone is Invented
On March the 10th 1876, Alexander graham Bell made the first ever voice transmission. He sent a message to his assistant, saying �Mr Watson come here I need you�. The day of the first ever voice exchange of ideas over the telephone also marked the birth of this communication device.
Retro Telephones
It Is possible to obtain the types of telephones used since the telephone first came into existence, They are usually either known as vintage telephones or retro telephones. Generally there is a difference between a vintage telephone and a retro telephone in that a retro telephone looks and feels like the phone it depicts but its inner workings are modern (not always the case), whereas a vintage telephone is an original , it would have been made at the period that its appearance depicts, e.G. Vintage trim phone would have been made in the 1970s, vintage rotary dial telephone would have been made between the 1950s to 1970s.
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Charles Edwards academic, sportsman, and entrepreneur. Visit his site for information on telecomms and retro telephones
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