What Is The History of The Phone

March, 2014 marks the 138th Anniversary of the Phone

Definition of Telephone

“An instrument which converts sound, specifically the human voice, to electrical impulses of various frequencies and than back to a tone that sounds like the original voice.”

-old ways of communication

Alexander Bell (first inventor of the phone)

First Telephone Company(1877)

First phone books being created(1878)

First Telephone Switchboard(1878)

First telephone numbers(1879)

Phones are starting to control us

Destroying our families

Distracting

Cell phone usage rapidly spread in the late 1900’s

Faster communication

Helps with emergencies

Thank you Alexander Bell