Invention of the telephone

American inventors? Thomas Newcomen created the first practical steam engine for pumping water, the Newcomen steam engine. Thomas Edison and his workshop patented 1,093 inventions. Included in this were the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, and the motion picture. He was the most famous inventor of his time and his inventions had a huge impact on America's growth and history. Samuel Morse invented the telegraph which greatly increased…

Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague in the 1870’s. He had then moved to Budapest to work for the Central Telephone Exchange. Tesla was trying to get interested in the induction motor, but after several years to gain intrset he moved from Europe to America.…

The telephone was first created just to teach deaf students how to visualize sounds. Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone for a specific reason, and ever since the telephone was created it has been a very important object to society and has evolved throughout the course of history. Society did not think that transmitting speech electrically was possible until Alexander Graham Bell created the first working telephone. Alexander Graham Bell invented the original telephone with his…

Science and medical inventions are inseparable from today’s modern society. They have helped save countless lives and improved the living conditions of many. Edward Teller, one who is often referred to as “the father of the hydrogen bomb” had once said, “The science of today is the technology of tomorrow”. This quote shows just how integral new scientific and medical developments are to the modern technology used today and how they would exist without scientific breakthroughs and discoveries…

who made the first telephone; Henry Ford, the automobile; The Wright brothers, the airplane, just to name a few. These entrepreneurs started out with a dream or maybe an idea. They came to make all of these inventions because they and friends to believe in them. Many companies saw what the inventors were doing and they wanted to help so they invested money into them to help their idea become possible, make it reality. Since, these inventors were being able to produce their invention they were…

part of the roar during the twenties, most people were involved. Firstly, the entertainment throughout the Roaring Twenties began to improve, making it a much more popular thing for people to do in their free time. Additionally, a number of new inventions were created because of the advancing technology and scientific achievements being made over the course of the era. Lastly, the economy was doing extraordinarily well and was quite successful compared to the previous decade. The Roaring…

time period in England. There were many advancements in the technology and new inventions. There was political and social reform. Finally Queen Victoria played a very important role in the success of this time period. These factors are what made the Victorian period very strong and successful for its time. In the Victorian Era there were many new inventions that are still used today or lead to even greater inventions. There was a great expansion of industry. In 1849 concrete was invented and…

The telegraph was a very simple and efficient method to send messages developed by Samuel Morse and a group of other inventors in the 1830s and 1840s. A combination of dots and dashes were assigned to each letter. To send a message the operator key would be pushed down to complete the battery’s electrical circuit and the amount of time you held the operator key would determine if it is a dot or dash. This would then transmit an electrical signal through the wires laid in between stations to the…

Development of the steel industry was boosted by discovery of the Bessemer process. ("Second Industrial Revolution") Henry Bessemer and William Kelly drastically reduced the cost and time needed in producing steel from pig-iron. They found out that that blasting air through molten iron produced high quality steel. Steel was widely used in construction of buildings, because it provided good support for skyscrapers and tall towers. Cornelius Vanderbilt, an American entrepreneur who built his…

The Industrial Revolution was consumed with ground breaking inventions around the world. However, one that has and will continue to impact the world is the telegraph. Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse. the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. From this the impact, change and need of the telegraph will be discussed also. The telegraph made slight direct impact on most people's lives. It was a 'specialist' technology, owned by companies and operated by…