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Speaking Telephone
Innocenzo Manzetti wanted to give his musical automaton a voice. Since he wanted to this he invented the speaking telephone. Although he never had the device patened, the invention was reported in newspapers. -
Liquid Transmitter
Alexander Graham Bell uses the liquid transmitter. This device was created by someone else who never patented the idea. So Bell made it his and called it an electromagnetic reciever. He was the first to transmit speech across the device. -
First Long Distance Call
The first long-distance telephone call was reported. The call was from Paris to Ontario, Canada. Alexander Graham Bell is the one who made the call. -
Microphone
A microphone was created by Emile Berliner. This microphone was based on contact of two metal electrolodes. The microphone was used to improve the Reis' Telephone that was popular at this time. -
Bell Telephone Compnay
A joint-stock compnay knwown as the Bell Telephone Company is created. A man named Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who would later be Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law, organized the company.The company would later join others to become more sucessful after almot going bankrupt. -
Western Union
Western Union decides to use Edison's superior carbon microphone transmitter. With this device they enter the telephone bussiness. Later Bell's company sues them for infringing on one of Bell's patents. -
National Bell Telephone Company
The Bell Telephone Company is near bankrupcy and needs financial help. The company merges with New England Telephone Company to create e new company. They end up creating the National Bell Telephone Company and Theodore Veil takes over the new company. -
Photophone
Alexander Grahem Bell invents the photophone. This phone let sound travel through a beam of light. The device was called a radio phone because sound was transmitted through the phone. -
AT&T
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was formed to be the long-distance division for the American Bell Telephone Company. This complany later takes over the Bell company and willl succeed. They are also known today as a cell phone company that many use. -
Automatic Panel Exchange
The automatic Panel exchange was a semi-automatic system. This sytem used non-dialing telephone system. The first system was installed in Newark, New Jersey. -
First Long-Distance Call in the U.S.
The first long-distance call in the United Sates was made from coast-to-coast. This call was made because of a newly invented vacuum-tube amplifier. Alexander Graham Bell halp make the call possible and was awarded for it. -
Rotary Dial
Telephones without rotary dials or touch-tone pads are no longer made. This is the year that the rotary dial telephone was first used in Nortfolk, Virginia. Alexander Graham Bell also used this invention for his company. -
Head Measurements
For the first time manufactures are making telehones that reach the ear and mouth and no longer two seperate peices. Because of this AT&T conducts the first measurments of peoples heads to determine the best dimensions to make the holding handset. To find the overall best measurement they used over 4,000 people to measure. -
Videophone
The first videohone call was made from Washington, D.C. to New York City. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover was the person to make the call. The call was possible due to an electro-mechanical AT&T unit. -
National Numbering Plan
The National Numbering Plan was created to seperate place and create more available phone numbers. The plan created area codes and seperate numbers to use in different places. Thsi also allowed companies to use the same phone number with a different area code.
