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Telephone HistoryJohann Philipp Reis was a self taught german scientist and inventor. On October 26th, 1861 he publicly demonstrated the Reis telephone, Four years after his death European scientists dedicated a monument to him as the inventor of the telephone.
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Telephone HistoryFiles a legal document titled "Sound Telegraph" describing communication of voice between two people by wire. He was an italian inventor. He was best known for developing a voice communication apparatus.
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Telephone HistoryAlmon Strowger patents the strowger switch which is known as a step by step electromechanical telephone switching system.
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Telephone HistoryThe first continental telephone call happened with Alexander Grahm Bell and Thomas Augustus Watson ( a assistant to Alexandar Grahm Bell) using a 3,400 mile wire stretched from San Fransisco to New York City.
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Telephone HistoryBell system engineers did the first transatlantic telephone call (using radio) from London to New York.
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Telephone HistoryTelephone HistoryThe Photophone also known as the Radiophone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter in Bell's street labratory in Washington, D.C. This device allowed humans to have a normal conversations on a beam of light.
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Telephone HistoryCaller ID was introduced in the Untied States.
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Telephone HistoryThe Iphone starts shipping all accross the world
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The first touch-tone was released to the public on a trial basis.
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Mink, Louisiana gets phone service (one of the last in the USA).
