Alexander Graham Bell Experimental Telephone

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Title

Alexander Graham Bell Experimental Telephone

Subject

Technology

Description

Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated several experimental telephones at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. This unit features a single electro-magnet and could be used both as transmitter and receiver. Bell approached the problem of transmitting speech differently from other telephone inventors like Elisha Gray and Thomas Edison. They were mostly experienced telegraphers trying to make a better telegraph. Bell's study of hearing and speech more strongly influenced his work.

Source

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_689864

Date

1876

Format

Image

Language

English

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Original Format

Photograph

Files

first_telephone.jpg

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Citation

“Alexander Graham Bell Experimental Telephone,” Making of the Modern US, accessed November 21, 2024, https://spring23modernus.leadr.site/items/show/235.

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