"Watson, come here; I want you." These were the first words ever to be spoken over the telephone.
• From age 18, Bell had been working on the idea of transmitting speech; In 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph, he created the basic ideas for the telephone. His assistant Thomas Watson was a great help in his accomplishments, the first complete sentence was transmitted: "Watson, come here; I want you."
• In the 1870s, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both invented devices that could transmit speech through electrical wiring.
• Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. After this, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell started a huge legal debate over the invention of the telephone. Obviously, Alexander won.
• The telegraph and the telephone are both wire-based electrical systems, and Alexander’s invention of the telephone was a result of trying to improve the telegraph.
• When Bell began experimenting with electrical signals, the telegraph had been an established means of communication for some 30 years. Although a highly successful system, the telegraph, with its dot-and-dash Morse code, was basically limited to receiving and sending one message at a time.
• By October 1874, Bell's research had progressed to the extent that he could inform his future father-in-law, Boston attorney Gardiner Greene Hubbard, about the possibility of a multiple telegraph.
• Bell proceeded with his work on the multiple telegraph, but he did not tell Hubbard that he and Thomas Watson, a young electrician whose services he had enlisted, were also exploring an idea that had occurred to him that summer - that of developing a device that would transmit speech electrically.
• On March 1875, Bell met with Joseph Henry, the director of the Smithsonian Institution. Henry listened to Bell's ideas for a telephone and offered encouraging words.
• Bell achieved his biggest success on March 10, 1876, which was not only the birth of the telephone but the death of the multiple telegraph as well.
• In the 1870s, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both invented devices that could transmit speech through electrical wiring.
• Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. After this, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell started a huge legal debate over the invention of the telephone. Obviously, Alexander won.
• The telegraph and the telephone are both wire-based electrical systems, and Alexander’s invention of the telephone was a result of trying to improve the telegraph.
• When Bell began experimenting with electrical signals, the telegraph had been an established means of communication for some 30 years. Although a highly successful system, the telegraph, with its dot-and-dash Morse code, was basically limited to receiving and sending one message at a time.
• By October 1874, Bell's research had progressed to the extent that he could inform his future father-in-law, Boston attorney Gardiner Greene Hubbard, about the possibility of a multiple telegraph.
• Bell proceeded with his work on the multiple telegraph, but he did not tell Hubbard that he and Thomas Watson, a young electrician whose services he had enlisted, were also exploring an idea that had occurred to him that summer - that of developing a device that would transmit speech electrically.
• On March 1875, Bell met with Joseph Henry, the director of the Smithsonian Institution. Henry listened to Bell's ideas for a telephone and offered encouraging words.
• Bell achieved his biggest success on March 10, 1876, which was not only the birth of the telephone but the death of the multiple telegraph as well.