Telephone


 * TELEPHONE!!! **

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish inventor and educator. He invented the telephone. When he was 27 years old, he worked out the principle of transmitting speech electrically. In 1876, when Bell was 29 years old, the basic telephone was granted. “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you,” were the first words ever to be carried by a telephone. Mr. Bell spoke these words to his assistant. Some of the early works on the telephone was done in Brantford, but Bell soon moved to Boston to set up a school for training educators of the deaf and to work on his inventions in his spare time. Bell faced some 600 lawsuits before the courts upheld his patents, but in the end he was acknowledged as the inventor of the telephone. The next year, bell and several helpers formed the first Bell telephone company to exploit the technology commercially. In this same year, he sold a majority interest in the Canadian patents to his father for one dollar, and the development of the telephone system in this country was initiated. Ever since the telephone was granted in 1876, it has prospered over all these years and will continue to prosper for future generations. “The telephone has become the glue that holds our society together. Its original purpose was to let people talk to each other over long distances, but it has evolved into a multipurpose network that joins family, friends, and just people together around the world. If there is one technology that the closing millennium can proudly bequeath to future generations, it’s the telephone system.” -Ian G. Masters



By: Jennifer Foresta, Miki Antzoulatos, and Kelsey Jones