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Home phones were invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. Antonio Meucci also had the idea but before Antonio could make the home phone Bell had already put a patent on it.
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By 1900 there were nearly 600,000 phones in Bell's telephone system. By 1905 that number shot up to 2.2 million, then in 1910 there were 5.8 million.
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During World war I, the government nationalized telephones for about a year (June 1918 to June 1919) after a joint resolution of congress, President Wilson put them under the U.S Post office. A year later the phones were returned to private ownership.
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By 1980, there were more than 175 million telephones subscriber lines in the U.S. In 1993, the first digital cellular network went online.
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Ever since cell phones came around the landline/ home phone started dying out and less people are using it each year.
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Now it is very hard to find a home phone/ land line in the average home. Most people carry around a smartphone/cellphone.
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By 1960, there were mpre than 80 milliom
