The History of the Telephone

I love my mobile phone like many people but you often forget how long it's taken to get to the technology we know today. I've written the following article to inform you of the history of the telephone. I hope you find the following article informative.

The history of the telephone starts in 1870 when two inventors called Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray planned an invention which would transmit speech electrically which is now known as the Telephone. Surprisingly these two men worked separately in there invention. Like many people they both rushed to the patent office to secure their design, unfortunately Alexander Graham Bell was the first one to the office. Obviously the two men battled it out in a legal court case which has made history but Bell won the case.

What we know of as a telephone originally started its life as a telegraph and evolved into what we know today as a telephone.

The telegraph was a electrical system which was wire based. This system had been used for roughly thirty years before Bell invented the telephone. The telegraph was a communication devise but communicated in a morse code of dots and dashes which became very confusing.

By October of 1874 Alexander Graham Bell's work had increased so much that Telegraph Company where happy to finance his research so that the telephone could be used. This company believed they were financing a multiply telegraph which could receive multiply morse codes through at once but Bell had enlisted a gentleman called Thomas Watson who was a electrician who could help Alexander Graham Bell in developing the device called the telephone which could transmit speech electrically via wires. In 1875 a Joseph Henry decided to help with financing and offered encouraging support for the telephone.