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"Hello" The Development of the
Telephone
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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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