| The telephone is an essential device used daily by just | | | | and to dial it, a rotary wheel was used and remained |
| about every American in the nation. The technology | | | | that way for some time. In more rural areas, party line |
| surrounding the phone seems to continue to astound | | | | style phones were still being used where others could |
| us and how rapidly the phone has changed from 1876 | | | | hear your conversations with your friends at the same |
| when Alexander Graham Bell invented what he called | | | | time which allowed no privacy. |
| the "harmonic telegraph". This article will discuss how | | | | In the 1980's is when the telephone began to change |
| the phone got it's start to the different types of | | | | with the invention of push button dialing, car phones |
| phones that exist today like the cell phone, business | | | | and cordless phones all became more and more |
| phone systems brands like Allworx and VolP, live video | | | | popular. To be able to talk on a phone in your car or |
| phones, and phones for specific conditions like the | | | | be able to walk around your house while having a |
| wilderness, space or underwater. | | | | phone conversation and not be tethered to the phone |
| Alexander Graham Bell wanted to improve on the | | | | by the cord were considered huge changes to the |
| telegraph which had been the main source of | | | | phone. In the late 80's the cellular or mobile phone |
| communicating for over 30 years by the late 1800's. | | | | started to become popular too which was even better |
| Since the telegraph was a wire based electrical | | | | than a phone plugged into your car lighter. Now, with |
| system, similar to the phone, the invention kind of | | | | computer technology the options for calling someone |
| happened by accident. He patented the phone which | | | | are endless and continue to change almost every 6 |
| he originally called a harmonic telegraph in 1876 when | | | | months. Cell phones now do a lot more than just call |
| realizing sound and voices could be carried over the | | | | someone as they have access to the internet now. If |
| wires instead of signals. With the invention of the | | | | you want to see the person you are talking to, then |
| telephone, the telegraph basically became extinct | | | | have a video chat with them using a web cam to feel |
| because the phone was so much more effective. Mr. | | | | more connected. |
| Bell would be pleased to see the continuing advances | | | | Astronauts, deep sea divers and people going into the |
| of his original invention still happening today. | | | | deep wilderness can all use special phones too using |
| The rate of technology and change for the telephone | | | | different frequencies like satellite to make a call. The |
| over the past 30 years is quite astounding. 40 years | | | | amount of lines a business can accommodate is |
| ago telephones were connected by above the ground | | | | enormous as well with high tech business phone |
| wiring using a main operator who controlled the flow of | | | | systems being used at most businesses making it a |
| the calls, basically. Each person had a phone number | | | | much more efficient company. |