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People have always wanted to communicate long distance. Most people make an average of 1,140 phone calls each year. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. When he died, all of the phones were shut down for one minute in the U.S and Canada as a tribute to Bell. Bell accidentally discovered the telephone, attempting to improve the telegraph.
In 1871, Bell moved to Boston and began work on a transmitting device. Between 1873 and 1874, he spend long nights trying to complete the device. Bell became interested in another idea and Thomas Watson was hired to make Bell focus on developing the telegraph. (Source 2,4)
In 1874 and 1875, Bell and Watson worked on both the telegraph and a voice transmitting device. On March 10th 1876, Bell …show more content…

He got rid of it when he started to get hundreds of silent phone calls each year. He realized they were from children who were just starting to use a telephone. The saying “To put someone on hold” came about when Bell handed his telephone to his assistant Thomas Watson and said “Here, hold this”. Johann Phillip Reis made a telephone like device using a cork, a knitting needle, a sausage skin, and a piece of platinum. (Source …show more content…

The metal detector’s first use was to find a bullet in President James Garfield. The bullet was not found. The nokia tune is a spanish guitar melody from 1902. Britain’s first mobile phone call was made by comedian Ernie Wise on january 1st, 1985. The New York telephone company had 6,000 operators in 1910. There are 150 million telephone lines across the world. That number increases by thousands every day. Mark Twain was one of the first people to have a telephone in his house. He once said “It is a time-saving, profanity-breeding, useful invention, and in America to be found in all homes except parsonages.” (Source 4,5)
Caller ID was invented in 1968. When Thomas Edison died in 1931, he held 34 patents for the telephone. Hitler’s telephone number was 11 6191. The first mobile telephones had to be charged for 10 hours just to get 30 minutes of battery life. A survey taken in 2007 found that 4.5 million mobile phones are lost or damaged each year. The first cellular network was launched in japan in 1979. The first rotary dial was invented in 1923. (Source

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