History of the telephone

The telephone is probably the mean of communication that has most revolutionized the daily lives of ordinary people. History of the telephone starts with the work of Michael Faraday who was born in 1791. Although in the history of the telephone, sound was not transmitted until 1861. It took Alexander Graham Bell, however, to fully start the history of the telephone.

How does a telephone work?

A telephone is a system that converts sound, especially human voice to electrical impulses of various frequencies and then back to a tone that sounds like the original voice.

Who invented the telephone?

Michael Faraday and the electrical theory

In 1831, an Englishman, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) proved that vibrations of metal could be converted to electrical impulses. This work of Michael Faraday was the technological basis of the telephone. However, in the history of the telephone, no one actually used this system of Michael Faraday to transmit sound in 1861.

Johann Philip Reis and the first telephone prototype

In 1861 Johann Philip Reis (1834-1874) in Germany is said to have built a simple apparatus that changed sound to electricity and back again to sound. This apparatus which Johann Philip Reis built was crude and it was incapable of transmitting most frequencies. As a result, this apparatus device, the work of Johann Philip Reis, was never fully developed.

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