Invention of the telephone

Telephone Thomas Edison called it an invention that “annihilated time and space and brought the human family in closer touch.” President Rutherford B. Hayes deemed it “one of the greatest event since creation.” Telephones are a tool for communication. Telephones impacted America by providing a way to connect with others around the world. Everyone and everything has a creator or should I say inventor. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone on March 10, 1876. Alexander was born on March 3,…

The 19th century was one of the greatest times of change and innovation in history. Inventions that changed the world sprung up left and right. Almost all significant inventions of this time period are still around today. One of the greatest weapons of war in its time was the ironclad. Ironclads were steam powered warships protected by iron or steel plating. they were first used successfully in the mid 19th century. ironclads were designed for several roles such as: dominating sea battles,…

Alexander Graham Bell Have you ever loved doing something so much that you want to pursue a career in it? Well imagine a person who worked very hard at what they loved doing and became a triple threat. Alexander Graham Bell was a very significant historical figure to this nation. He invented and conducted experiments for things that help us humans make our lives easier everyday. Also, he has helped people with disabilities not lose the privilege of knowledge. Alexander Graham Bell was a…

communicate long distances. It was mainly used in the mid 1800’s and 1900’s and was most influential with the United States and Europe. Thanks to this invention other important forms of communications were brought out such as Morse code and the telephone. The telephone was used from late 1800’s to present day. This machine was derived from another invention known as a phonautograph and unlike the telegraph used direct voice to voice communications which made it faster and more efficient to…

communication by inventing the telephone. Bell’s father, grandfather, and brother has all been associated with work on speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. At the age of twenty three, Alexander Graham Bell moved to Canada with his parents. His research on hearing and speech at Boston University further led him to experiences with hearing devices which culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876. A…

information is at our fingertips. This was unimaginable 200 years ago. It is amazing to see how far humans have come since then. A lot of it is credited to a few key people and inventions from the early 1800s. The first of these inventions is the steam locomotive. This may have been the most defining and important invention during this era. It started to connect the otherwise separated country by making travel substantially faster. Postal services also made use of the steam locomotive’s record…

Stone Stone continued his great interest of the telephone, the great transmission of the human voice, and space waves. He founded his own company February of 1907, and was named The Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers. SWTE was unfortunately an unsuccessful business due to lack of availability to radio…

Thomas Alva Edison was the most prolific inventor in American history. As a 19th century pioneer, he introduced America to innovation or invention, research, development and commercialization. His largest contributions to cinema include the phonograph, light bulb, kinetoscope, the first motion picture and the first film production studio. The inventor was born to Sam and Nancy on February 11th, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. As a child, Edison was a poor student and teachers saw little potential in him.…

that in 1877 the owners of the Bell telephone patent offered to sell it to Western Union for $100,000. By the time Western Union realized its mistake and offered millions for the patent, Bell Telephone Company was in competition with the Western Union and had sued Western Union for infringement. In November 1879, rather than risk losing in court, Western Union agreed to settle the infringement suit. Specifically, Western Union agreed to withdraw from the telephone business for the duration of…

for the society of the (1800s-early 1900s). It is almost impossible to imagine what the world would be like without the impact and effects of the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a time period of creations and new beginnings. Inventions during the Industrial Revolution changed the way people worked to a more efficient way with the use of machines. Before machines were invented, manual…