The telephone

Telegraph

1793

For many centuries, people tried to send singnals over long distances by using fires and mirrors to carry messages. In 1793, the Telegraph was invented, and signals were first sent along wires.

The first patent

1876

Bells first telephone had one combined mouthpiece and earpiece. When you spoke into the horn, the voice was converted into electric singnals which were carried along telephone wires.

Soon afterwards

1879

Thomas Edison made a telephone with a seoarate mouthpiece abd earpiece

Dial phone

1896

Where the first dial phones were used

The first mobile phone

1979

The mobile phone was invented in 1979 at the Bell Telephone Laboraties in the USA.