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Telephone Past and Present
TELEPHONE PAST TO THE PRESENT YOLINDA RATLIFF INF. 103 COMPUTER LITERACY INSTRUCTOR MIKE JONES August 10, 2010

In 1862 Thomas Alvin Edison hung a telegraphy line from Port Hudson Railroad station to Port Hudson village and worked in the telegraphy office as he was taught as a child by his father this trade. In 1876-1877 Thomas Edison invented the telephone “button” the carbon transmitter that started telephony’s commercial success
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In the 1870’s Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both invented the telephone, even though they both went to the patent office on the same day Bell arrived first so he was the one to receive the patent on the telephone. This started a legal battle between the two over the invention of the telephone, this legal battle became quite famous but as we know from history Alexander Graham

Bell won the battle and received and maintained his patent on the telephone.

Bell’s experimenting with the telegraphy to improve on it’s uses was how he accomplished the invention of the telephone. Bell’s understanding of sound and music and his great love of communication and the finding and inventing the unknown as well as his desire to improve on communication gave him the idea of sending several messages on the same wire at the same time, and he kept trying and by the process of experimenting and many failures I am sure his ideas worked and he proved he was correct to keep striving at his goal.

He figured out that if you use different pitches that several voice notes could be sent at the same time on one wire.

Belle received his initial financial backing from his future father-in-law Gardiner
Green Halberd that he needed to continue his work and get the bugs out. With all an ambitious electrician he

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