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    The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by more than one individual, and led to an array of lawsuits relating to the patent claims...
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    was granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Before the invention of electromagnetic telephones, mechanical acoustic devices existed for transmitting...
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    Alexander Graham Bell (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    culminated in his being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone, on March 7, 1876. Bell considered his invention an intrusion on his real work as...
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    attracting the attention of the press and resulting in the first announcements of the invention to the general public. Lord Kelvin describes the telephone as...
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    as a museum to the family and to the invention of the telephone. In 1996, it was declared a historic landmark, and is now known as the Bell Homestead...
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    Brantford (redirect from The Telephone City)
    Bell's invention of the telephone in Brantford; it is also one of the National Historic Sites of Canada. Some articles suggest that the telephone was invented...
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    Thomas A. Watson (category History of telecommunications)
    1934) was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone in 1876. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, United States Watson...
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  • The Reis telephone was an invention named after Philipp Reis of a telephone-like device he constructed. Reis's first successful work is dated to October...
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    A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers...
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    credited with the invention of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone by the United States...
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    with the older equipment. Shortly after the invention of the telephone, attempts were made to adapt the technology for military use. Telephones were already...
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    Antonio Meucci (category Discovery and invention controversies)
    (Inventor of the telephone). The U.S. House of Representatives in a resolution in 2002 also acknowledged Meucci's work in the invention of the telephone, although...
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  • transmission of voice, fax, or data, between distant parties. The history of telephony is intimately linked to the invention and development of the telephone. Telephony...
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    A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a landline telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic...
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    it gave the impetus for the creation of a new industrial sector. As with the invention of the telephone itself, the honour of "first telephone exchange"...
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    In 1880, when the French government awarded Alexander Graham Bell the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs for the invention of the telephone (equivalent to...
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    auto-attendant function, which bypasses the operator. Following the invention of the telephone in 1876, the first telephones were rented in pairs which were limited...
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  • The Telephone Cases, 126 U.S. 1 (1888), were a series of U.S. court cases in the 1870s and the 1880s related to the invention of the telephone, which culminated...
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  • in Mauritius, with the first telephone line installed in 1883, seven years after the invention of the telephone. Over the years, the network and telephony...
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    speech, Bell made the following comment, "the telephone problem was solved, and it was solved at my father's home". As well, two of the first successful...
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    Elisha Gray (category Discovery and invention controversies)
    in Chicago. Because of Samuel White's opposition to Gray working on the telephone, Gray did not tell anybody about his invention for transmitting voice...
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    inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired. Strowger...
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    portal Bell Telephone Memorial, a monument sculpted by W.S. Allard, commemorating the invention of the telephone International Bell Telephone Company, sister...
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    Johann Philipp Reis (category Discovery and invention controversies)
    Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the results were covered up by STC's chairman Sir Frank Gill to maintain Bell's reputation. Since the invention of...
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  • Union over patent priority in the invention of the telephone, ending with a courtroom victory. The final scene has the hero contemplating crewed flight...
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    Bell System (redirect from Bell Telephone)
    Department of Justice in 1984, at which time the Bell System ceased to exist. Receiving a U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone on March 7,...
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    and strung wire. The term continued in use with the invention of the telephone in the 1870s and the beginning of electrification in the 1890s. This new...
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    in electrical wiring since the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph in the 1820s. The invention of the telephone in 1876 created further demand...
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  • The history of AT&T dates back to the invention of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell, who obtained...
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    telephone systems to transmit multiple telephone calls through high capacity trunklines, communications satellites to transmit multiple channels of data...
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