A Case Study on

Telephone
From cradle to grave
 introduction

There are a few inventions that truly changed the world . Telephone is one of them .

It has helped man conquer the limits imposed by nature and distance . The telephone is one of
the biggest “disrupters” starting from the late 1800s . Alongside electricity and the internal
combustion engine , the telephone has revolutionized our way of life .

With it , we have connected opposite ends of the world . Utill today this revolution continues to
evolve evolve , with fibre – optics , satellites , and mobile phone technology .

Incremental changes , including the doubling of processing speed every 18 months or so since
the 1960s .

But the history of telephone is not in a straight line . It’s amazing work of experimentation ,
discovery , incremental improvements .
 Telephone prehistory
. This journey starts with the tin can or “lovers”
telephone .

. Before the invention of electromagnetic

telephones , mechanical acoustic devices existed
for transmitting speech and music over a greater
distance .

. The distance was greater than that of normal

direct speech . The earliest mechanical telephone
were based on sound transmission through pipes
or other physical media .

* Basic phenomenon behind this was that it connects two diaphragms with a taut string
or wire , which transmits sound by mechanical vibrations from one to another side along
the wire .
 invention

. Credit for the invention of the electric telephone

is frequently disputed , and new controversies
over the issue have arisen from time to time .

. Antonio meucci , Alexander Graham Bell anf

Elisha Gray amongst others , have all ctredited
with the telephone’s invention . Antonio Meucci , 1854

. The early history of telephones became and still

remains a confusing morass of claims and
counterclaims , which were not not clarified by
the huge mass of lawsuits to resolve the patent
claims of many individuals and commercial
competitpors .

Alexander Graham Bell , 1876

 Modern telephone

. The modern telephone is the result of work of

many people . Alexander Graham Bell was
however , the first to patent the telephone , as an
“ apparatus for transmitting cocal or other sounds
telegraphically “ .

. Bell has most often been awarded as the

inventor of the first practical telephone .

. There had been many controversies regarding

who invented telephone independentally and , if Alexander Graham Bell in a 1926 short film
With his bell prototype .
not , whether Bell stole the information from gray
but the controversies are much narrower and the
broader question is who deservers the credit for
inventing the phone .
 telephone evolution

. Alexander Graham bell invented the telephone in march 1876 . After this he set up a
lab and wanted to improve his inevtion and then he made history’s first wireless call
 FEW SKETCHES OF PROTOTYPES

Strowger Candlestick phone Bell prototype

 FEW SKETCHES OF PROTOTYPES

Touch tone pad phone Analog mobile phone

 FEW SKETCHES OF PROTOTYPES

Muti line corded desk phones Digital mobile phone

 FEW SKETCHES OF PROTOTYPES

Strowger Candlestick phone Bell prototype

 The number of telephone and mobile phone users ( in crores )
10

5
9.3
4
7.25
3
5.4

2
3.25
1

0.6 0.9
0.35
0
2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2012 2014
21 century developments
st

. Internet protocols ( IP ) technology , also known

as internet telephony or voice over Internet
protocol ( VOIP ) , is a disruptive technology that
is rapidly gaining against traditional telephone
network technologies .

. Telecommunications of the 21st century has been

dominated by the development of the
smartphone .

. This is a combination of a hand – held .

computer , a cellular phone , a digital camera ,
and internet access
Effects of using mobile phones too much

In today’s fast moving and globalized world it is

almost imposible to imagine our day to day life
without mobile phones .

It is one of the most successful inventions of the

20th century , which has become a convenient
means of communication .

There are certain harmful health effects