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The telephone was invented by the Italian inventor Antonio Meucci. He built it to connect his office with his bedroom so he could talk to his wife, who was immobilized in bed due to illness. The device could transmit acoustic signals at a distance by means of electrical signals. Meucci had no money to patent the invention, so his discovery was never recognized.
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Alexander Graham Bell patent Meucci's device and he was consider as the inventor of the telephone.
But remember the real inventor of the telephone, or teletrophone, was that Italian inventor. -
In this year, some electrical companies invented the first wheel telephone, you spin the wheel and select your numbers, with that done, you were able to call whoever you want in the area you are supposed to. The dialing of a subscriber's telephone number was done by pulses. In this way, each path of the disc produced a certain number of electrical pulses that the automatic switchboards interpreted mechanically and were able to establish communication between two devices.
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The first wireless call was made by Martin Cooper, an engineer for the telecommunications company Motorola. During the following years, technological advances made it possible to develop the first mobile phone models, which allowed communication from anywhere. At that time, the call could have a maximum duration of 30 minutes.