The telephone

The invention and its inventor

 The telephone
The invention was patented on March 7, 1876, but the date that
entered the history of telephony was March 10, 1876
 The inventor
 Alexandre Graham Bell, born in
Scotland, in the year 1847 and died
in 2 august 1922;

 He devoted much of his life to

finding a way to turn sound into
energy and transmit it over a wire;

 The experiments were supported by

an assistant, Thomas Watson;
Alexandre Graham Bell Thomas Watson
 Where did the idea come from ?

 Bell was very knowledgeable about the nature

of sound and was very well understood in
music;

 All this allowed him to conjecture the

possibility of transmitting several messages
over the same wire at the same time;
The Telephone
 On March 10 , 1876 , the first complete message was
electrically transmitted by the newly invented device;

 Graham Bell was on the top floor of an lodging in

Boston, United States;

 Watson worked on the ground floor and answered the

phone, which rang. He heard, "Mr. Watson, come
here. I need to speak to you."

 A long history was beginning, the history of

telecommunications, which would revolutionize the
world from then on
 Phone evolution
 Almost 20 years after the invention of Graham
Bell, Landell de Moura performs the first
wireless voice transmission;

 Due to the evolution of the telephone today, it

is possible for anyone to communicate with
another person who is on the other side of the
world only with a mobile and practical device;

 Voice communication, has become increasingly

important in people's life, anywhere in the
world;
 Curiosities
 March 10th is phone day;

 The first words to be transmitted were "Mr Watson, come here. I need
to speak to you";

 The following year, Graham Bell founded the Bell Telephone Company

 That became American Telephone & Telegraph, the largest telephone

company in the world;

 The first telephone was installed at the home of Charles Williams

Somerville on April 4, 1877, in Massachusetts;
Work done by Laura Fernandes
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