Telephone

By titianna
  • also the first so called telephone

    also the first so called telephone

    Antonio Meucci

  • electric telegraph

    1844: Innocenzo Manzetti first suggests the idea of an electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone.

  • transmitter receiver

    1854: Charles Bourseul publishes a description of a make-and-break telephone transmitter and receiver in but does not construct a working instrument

  • newyork

    1872: Professor Vanderwyde demonstrated Reis's telephone in New York
  • the second telephone

    the second telephone

    this one was invented by elisha gray
  • the first telephone

    the first telephone

    the first telephone was invented by alexander graham bell

  • thomas edison

    16 May 1876: Thomas Edison files first patent application for acoustic telegraphy for which U.S. patent 182,996 was granted October 10, 1876.

  • loose contact

    4 March 1877: Emile Berliner invents a microphone based on "loose contact" between two metal electrodes, an improvement on Reis' Telephone, and in April 1877 files a caveat of an invention in process.

  • only in new york and boston

    4 September 1884: Opening of telephone service between New York and Boston

  • london to newyork

    7 March 1926: First transatlantic telephone call, from London to New York

  • mobil phone call

    1946: first commercial mobile phone call

  • touch tone

    1961: Initiation of Touch-Tone service trials

  • celluar phone device

    1971: AT&T submitted a proposal for cellular phone service to the U.S.

  • caller id

    1982: Caller ID patented by Carolyn Doughty, Bell Labs

  • he had he idea of a phone

    11 June 2002: Antonio Meucci is recognized for "...his work in the invention of the telephone" (but not "...for inventing the telephone")