17 February 2009
Who invented the telephone?
Posted by Cecilia under: Culture; Economy; Life; Science .
Most of us can no longer imagine being without our cell phones. We’ve become accustomed to always being available and ready to be contacted by phone. As indispensable as the cellular telephone is, it has only been with us for a fraction of the life of the telephone itself.
The invention of the telephone seemed to have been in the wind because it was invented independently by four different inventors: Johann-Philipp Reis of Germany, Charles Bourseul of France, Elisha Gray in the USA - and the man who on February 14, 1876 virtually snatched the patent for the telephone under Gray’s nose: Alexander Graham Bell.
Do you recall the words that were first transmitted through the telephone?
Bell’s first words on phone were directed to his employee: “Watson - come here - I want you!”
German inventor Reis had a more colorful first sentence, when in 1861 he transmitted the phrase “Horses don’t eat cucumber salad”. Reis wasn’t really interested in the transmission of voices but in the anatomy of human ears. This was the main reason why his invention of the phone is long forgotten.
In the future, they’ll probably write stories about the first words transmitted over a cellular phone. I’m not psychic, but I think it might be something like “Can you hear me now?”
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