How Well Do You Know Your Telephone History?

Have you ever wondered how you could just pick up this small device and talk through it to someone else, miles and miles away from you and hear them as clearly as if they were sitting on the same couch as you?

I have wondered that a lot. I have wondered who could have stumbled on the idea that something could be done to make people who live far away from each other to communicate with each other by voice. How did the person get the idea?

Well, here's what i found...

Two men, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray stumbled on the idea; maybe around the same time, I don't know, but they both filed for a patent on the same day. This caused a huge disagreement that led to a legal battle to find who to be awarded the patent for the invention of the telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell won.

His lawyer had filed for a patent a few hours before Elisha's lawyer filed for his own patent.

One day, in an electrical shop, Alexander Graham Bell was trying to perfect a method for sending messages on a single wire when he heard the sound of a plucked spring along a 60ft wire and the idea suddenly came to him that he could create a means of sending the human voice over a wire. 

He made his invention in 1876 and ever since the telephone has evolved so many times that it has become this portable device that we can carry on our person and can use anywhere.

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