Development in telecommunication systems have changed and greatly affected the lives of

people in many ways but before studying such thing, we must know deeply how it began and
developed through the years. It is a good thing to know how communication evolves from
person-to-person to telegraph and from telegraph to telephone and so on. At first, long distance
communication was very complicated because messages were delivered personally. But after
Samuel Morse, an American painter and inventor, contributed to the invention of single-wire
telegraph system using the Morse code to send any message to another end, the
telecommunication system never looked back. Samuel Morse was the first person to ever send a
message from a far distance (Washington D.C to Baltimore in 1844) through the telegraph and
said: What hath God wrought? .And it was taken from the Bible.
Then after few more years of researches and experimentations, Alexander Graham Bell filed a
patent described as Improvements in Telegraphy and later on it was credited to him in 1876.
Alexander was a teacher of deaf people and was conducting a study about human voice and how
it is being produced which later on led to his discovery that human voice can be transmitted
electrically using the vibrations. Mr. Watson, Come here! I want you! was the first message
uttered through a telephone. After a year, Thomas Edison who was an American inventor and
businessman, invented the carbon microphone which was used in phones until 1970s. Before, a
one wire, copper system was used until 1981 came that a 2 wire system was invented and
implemented. A high frequency signal called Microwave was implemented to transmit phone
conversations which up until now is being used. Later on, telephone system became digital and
the cabling system was replaced by optical fiber which can transmit lots of information at once.
From 2000 and beyond, all telephones are digital.

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History. Alexander Graham Bell. Retrieved from

http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell
National Geographic. June 19 2012. I Didn't Know That - History of the Telephone.

Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWUP9EigdjY.

Americas Story from Americas Library. Retrieved from

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_morsecod_1.html
Alexander Graham Bell. Retrieved from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell