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Nov 9, 2009 · Alexander Graham Bell made the first long-distance telephone call in 1892, reaching Chicago from New York. In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison introduced the phonograph, the first machine capable of ...
Oct 19, 2018 · Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to Queen Victoria in 1878, and in 1878 the Telephone Company Ltd was formed to market Bell's phones in Britain. In 1880 the first phone book was published, and an important court judgment granted the Post Office monopoly on telephone services.
Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ. ə m /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
May 28, 2024 · Alexander Graham Bell, inventor who patented the telephone in 1876, lecturing at Salem, Massachusetts (top), while friends in his study at Boston listen to his lecture via telephone, February 12, 1877.
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- Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American inventor and scientist. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1870 Bell and...
- Although Alexander Graham Bell is best remembered as the inventor of the telephone, he invented other devices too. Bell developed several sonic tec...
- The first telephone had two parts: a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter comprised three parts—a drumlike device (a cylinder with a covered...
Apr 3, 2014 · Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.
May 21, 2021 · Bell patented his telephone first and later emerged the victor in a legal dispute with Gray. Today, Bell's name is synonymous with the telephone, while Gray is largely forgotten. However, the story of who invented the telephone goes beyond these two men.
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On that same day a few hours later – or was it a few hours earlier? – inventor Elisha Gray of Highland Park, Illinois, filed his own idea for a telephone device at the same office. Bell was granted...
