The telephone has come a long way since its development by the first experimental equipment of Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Today the cellular phone has become an integral part of our lines. This can be good or bad. Good because a child has a means to call home is case of an emergency, bad because the spend most of their time text messaging the friends. Good when traveling in your car and can call road side service for help, bad watching people weave back and forth on the highway believing they can do two things at the same time is a safe manner.
Alexander Graham Bell inventor, innovator, and scientist was born on March 3, 1847 and died on August 2, 1922. Although he has been noted for his many achievements, the most recognized development of the telephone. Two years after Bell develop the telephone; his father-in-law (Gardiner Greene Hubbard) started the original Bell Telephone Company. Hubbard also created another telephone company called the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. These two companies merger a year latter, 1879, to become National Bell Telephone Company. The merging continued in 1880 with National joining others to form the American Bell Telephone Company. This eventually became American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), which loved and hated for so many years until its breakup.
Bell Company was the "sole source" for much telephone technology until very recently. The wooden box phones, vanities, upright "candlesticks," and desk stand or "cradle" phones you stashed away in your attic years ago are likely to be a magnificent treasure today! Delve Bookstore has the latest as well as some early books on telephones for you to enjoy.
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Telephones! Design, History, and Restoration |
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