The Impact Of The Telephone
Joshua Uzan
American History
Mr. Rothbort
December 4th, 2014 The Impact of the Telephone
We picture inventors as heroes with the genius to recognize and solve a society's problems. In reality, the greatest inventors have been tinkerers who loved tinkered for its own sake and who then had to figure out what, if anything, their devices might be good for" - Jared Diamond. The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1867, revolutionized the world we live in today. The telephone had many good impacts on American society. Three main impacts were that it connected the country as a whole, stimulated business and created jobs, and helped security across the board. The Telephone, " A crude thing made of a wooden stand, a …show more content…
Both of these men independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their own designs to the patent office in New York within hours of each other. A.G Bell's patent (archives.gov- primary source) got their first and therefore is credited for the inventor of the telephone. Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell, as a result, got into a famous legal battle over the invention. At the end Bell won (inventors.com). The telephone itself is simply "a system which converts sound, specifically the human voice, to electrical impulses of various frequencies and then back to a tone that sounds like the original voice" ( idea finder.com). When a person speaks into a telephone, the sound waves made by his voice enter the mouthpiece. An electric current carries the sound to the telephone of the person he is talking to. A telephone has two main parts: the transmitter and the receiver. The Transmitter of a telephone …show more content…
As a result of the invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell created the Bell Telephone Company which, in1885, became the American Telegraph and Telephone Company (AT&T) (ebook). AT&T dominated telephone communications for the next century and controlled basically all telephone traffic in the USA. Between 1894 and 1904, over six thousand independent telephone companies went into business in the United States, and the number of telephones boomed from 285,000 to 3,317,000 (corp.att.com). Because of this booming in business, many jobs were created and the economy starts to boom. It was the golden age of invention and many people took advantage and did something about it. And as a result, these companies are big successful companies today and play a major role in our
American History
Mr. Rothbort
December 4th, 2014 The Impact of the Telephone
We picture inventors as heroes with the genius to recognize and solve a society's problems. In reality, the greatest inventors have been tinkerers who loved tinkered for its own sake and who then had to figure out what, if anything, their devices might be good for" - Jared Diamond. The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1867, revolutionized the world we live in today. The telephone had many good impacts on American society. Three main impacts were that it connected the country as a whole, stimulated business and created jobs, and helped security across the board. The Telephone, " A crude thing made of a wooden stand, a …show more content…
Both of these men independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their own designs to the patent office in New York within hours of each other. A.G Bell's patent (archives.gov- primary source) got their first and therefore is credited for the inventor of the telephone. Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell, as a result, got into a famous legal battle over the invention. At the end Bell won (inventors.com). The telephone itself is simply "a system which converts sound, specifically the human voice, to electrical impulses of various frequencies and then back to a tone that sounds like the original voice" ( idea finder.com). When a person speaks into a telephone, the sound waves made by his voice enter the mouthpiece. An electric current carries the sound to the telephone of the person he is talking to. A telephone has two main parts: the transmitter and the receiver. The Transmitter of a telephone …show more content…
As a result of the invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell created the Bell Telephone Company which, in1885, became the American Telegraph and Telephone Company (AT&T) (ebook). AT&T dominated telephone communications for the next century and controlled basically all telephone traffic in the USA. Between 1894 and 1904, over six thousand independent telephone companies went into business in the United States, and the number of telephones boomed from 285,000 to 3,317,000 (corp.att.com). Because of this booming in business, many jobs were created and the economy starts to boom. It was the golden age of invention and many people took advantage and did something about it. And as a result, these companies are big successful companies today and play a major role in our