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The Evolution of the Telephone:The Evolution of the Telephone:From the Crank Phone to the iPhoneFrom the Crank Phone to the iPhone
Created by Mark LitwaJuly 20, 2009
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How It All Began
• An accident gives Alexander Graham Bell his idea for the telephone
• Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone in 1876
• Lawsuits were filed by various individuals, and Bell’s claim to being the inventor of the first telephone had to be defended in court some 600 times
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Switchboard Operators
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Switchboard Operators
• The first telephone operators were under-trained, unsupervised telegraph boys but were soon replaced by young women who proved to be more pleasant and reliable
• The ever increasing number of callers soon transformed the profession. By 1946, nearly a quarter-million switchboard operators were employed by AT&T
• In 1921, Omaha, Nebraska opened the first all-automatic exchange
• Today there are no telephones served by manual exchanges in the United States. All telephone subscribers are served by automatic exchanges run by computers, which perform the functions of the human operator
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How They Work
• Sound waves are converted into electrical signals, and electrical signals into sound waves
• The telephone required the simultaneous invention of the microphone, signal amplifiers and speaker
• Parts:– Transmitter (microphone)– Receiver (speaker)– Dial (pulse or tone)– Alerter/Ringer– Antisidetone network
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Long Distance
1881 Boston-Salem1884 New York-Boston1892 New York-Chicago1893 Boston-Chicago
1895 Chicago-Nashville 1896 Kansas City-Omaha1897 New York-Charleston1898 New York-Kansas City1927 Columbia, MO-London
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Hand Cranked Wall-1880’s
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Candlestick-1890’s
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Cradle Phone-1890’s
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Candlestick Rotary-1914
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Desktop Rotary-1920’s
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Touchtone-1960’s
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Wall Touchtone-1970’s
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Cordless-1980’s
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Mobile/Cellular-1983
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Candy Bar-1990’s
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Clamshell/Flip
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Sliding/Qwerty Keyboard
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Smart Phone
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Blackberry
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Bluetooth
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Touch Screen
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iPhone
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VoIP (eg, Skype, Vonage)
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Then and Now
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Then NowMake calls Make calls
TextVoicemailPicturesVideoMusicInternetEmailGPSVideogamesAnd more!
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From Big & Bulky to Slim & Subtle
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The Future?
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References
Krupa, Frederique (1992). The Evolution of the Telephone System: From Bell's Electric Toy to the Internet. Retrieved July 15, 2009, from http://www.translucency.com/frede/telephone.html
“Telephone.” Wikipedia (2009). Retrieved July 16, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org
“Telephone.” Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia (2009). Retrieved July 16, 2009, from http://encarta.msn.com