The phone By facebooker_1558156437691708 Mar 10, 1876 Centennial telephone Graham Bell created the centennial telephone. 1889 Public coin telephone William Gray installed the first public telephone. 1891 Rotary dial telephone Antoine Barnay invented it. 1975 Comkey 416 phone AT&T/BTL invented it. 2011 Savant iPBX technology Inventors from the savant company created this phone