The invention of the telephone

Telephone – terminal device

In 1876, two inventors, Elisha Gray and connected to the end of a
Alexander Bell, designed their own telephones. telephone line.
The two filed the devices with the patent office
within a few hours of each other; Bell was the
first to patent his telephone.

The main parts of a telephone are:

 a microphone that converts sounds
Fun fact: into electrical signals;
 a handset (or loudspeaker) that
Already in the 17th century, people began to converts electrical signals into sounds
realize the possibility of transmitting voice (the microphone and the handset
via a metal wire. This can be proven in a usually form a unit with a common
simple way, using two metal vessels housing, called a microtelephone, and
connected by a wire. colloquially also a handset);
 a dial dial or keyboard producing
selective signals;
 acoustic or optical transducer calling
Fun fact: the subscriber (bell).

The invention of the telephone (1877) can be

compared to the invention of the wheel. Never
before has it been possible to communicate so
quickly over long distances.
The first phase of the phone's
development was the connection of two
users, which was carried out manually.
Fun fact: The operator of the device connected
two lines together using a plug and
Based on archaeological discoveries, it was established that socket. Breakthroughs in the
the first attempts at long-distance communication were used development of telephony occurred
in ancient China. Two metal cups were used to play, with the invention of the automatic
connected with a taut string - a thread telephone. telephone exchange and the expansion
of public telephone networks. The
automatic switchboard solution was
developed in 1889 by Almon Brown
Strowger - an American inventor and
Poles were also pioneers of telephony. Henryk Machalski (1835–
entrepreneur. In 1896, Bell improved
1919) patented a powder microphone of his own design in 1879
his invention - the first telephones with
and a telephone built using this microphone. He used this
a round dial dial appeared. The dialing
telephone to transmit a concert from Zhovkva to Lviv in 1881. In
system changed from dial to keyboard
the years 1882–1887, working in Paris, Julian Ochorowicz made
in 1963.
many improvements to the telephone's design, some of which
found practical application.