6 Individuals & Societies: Invention of the Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell shows how the telephone uses electricity to transmit sound over great distances, at a demonstration in Massachusetts in 1887.

(via Britannica, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

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• "Audible speech conveyed two miles by telegraph", Arizona Citizen, November 18, 1876
• "A wonderful invention", Wichita City Eagle, April 19, 1877
• "The telephone case", (This is about a lawsuit against Mr. Bell over the patent to the technology enabling the invention of the telephone)
• "The Birth of the Telephone", The Omaha Daily Bee, July 9, 1899
• "First transatlantic call linking the coasts", Hopkinsville Kentuckian, February 4, 1915

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• Marquette Professor settles 144 year old controversy on invention of the telephone
• Alexander Graham Bell, via History.com
• Ahoy! Alexander Graham Bell and the first telephone call, via Science Museum

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• The Machines that built America, via History.com