Why is the cell phone an important invention
The Invention Of The Telephone I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Gosford frist Kainan gherkin Sala
translated as the horse does not EQ
cumbrous salad these are the most famous
words in connection with a unique
invention that has become indispensable
in our daily lives what was first
dismissed as a pointless toy its
potential was quickly recognized by some
clever minds this invention is
responsible for the largest patent
dispute in history we are talking about
the telephone
hello my dear friends of encrypted
communication I'm Brett and a very big
welcome to another episode of its
history now every country has its
telephone inventor the French have
Charles boo soul who in 1854 described a
telephone but never built the thing the
Italians have their theater technician
and candlestick maker Antonio Meucci who
in 1871 drew up a blueprint for a phone
but it never became anything more and
then there's the good old American
Leisha gray who turned in his patent
just a little bit too late nonetheless
the invention of the telephone has
become closely associated with two other
names Alexander Graham Bell the one who
everyone knows and johann philipp ice
the name whom maybe only a few of you
know two super intelligent people whose
biographies could not be any more
different one was a son av professor of
rhetoric and at the age of ten entered a
private school in Edinburgh Scotland
later he would come to study Latin and
Greek by the age of 17 Alexander Graham
Bell became a teacher of elocution and
music inelegant also in Scotland the
other was the son of a baker and became
an orphan by the age of 10 by the virtue
of his circumstances he could not find
himself anything more than a commercial
apprenticeship however johann philipp
rice can be counted as one of the most
important pioneers of the telephone a
feat all the more impressive considering
he acquired all of his knowledge through
self-study rice was one of the first
persons to send a word by an electrical
wire his most productive period as an
inventor began about 1858 in a boys
boarding school in friedrich store
surprisingly the inventor received a job
as a teacher of french-- physics
mathematics and chemistry with whatever
little time he had left to spare he
spent inside a barn he had converted
into a lab while he had brilliant ideas
they did not achieve what he had hoped
for inventions such as the velocipede an
early form of the bicycle or
rollerskates the forerunner of today's
inline skates did not find large
audiences asphalt in concrete were just
not that popular back then the idea of
his most important invention the
telephone was inspired from a physics
lesson where he had built a model of the
human ear he carved the external parts
of the ear out of wood and the ear drum
he made out of a piece of pig intestine
having already experimented in his
laboratory with electricity and was
familiar with several more
is Telegraph he came to the idea that he
could reproduce sound of all kinds by
the galvanic current at any distance
from those of you who are not familiar
the sound produced through galvanic
current is the result of a natural
resonance that is reproduced when an
iron rod is placed inside the hollow of
an insulated wire with the current being
continuously interrupted his voice
transmission was based on the
conversation of sound waves into
electrical signals with the help of
membranes whose vibrations interrupt the
circuit these pulses became then
transmitted through the line and then
translated back into sound waves through
an amplified wooden sound box and to a
sort of noise that could be identified
as speech signals he presented his
invention before the forum of the
physical Society in Frankfurt online on
the 26th of October 1861 under what was
the unwieldly title on the reproduction
of musical sounds to any distance
through the medium of gab Banach current
he called his device the telephone
during his demonstration the words that
he spoke into the device at one end were
clearly reproduced at the other the
horse does not eat cucumber salad rice
shows the strange phrase because well it
makes no sense so therefore no one could
guess what the next word would be news
of the invention spread quickly and rice
gave demonstrations of this new device
to both the Emperor of Austria and the
King Max of Bavaria Rice's phones were
shipped for scientific purposes on long
trips up to Tbilisi in the caucuses but
as like his other inventions his
telephone came out just too darn early
and the importance was overlooked it was
simply seen as a plaything for physics
while living long enough to become
intensely embittered and resentful On
January 14th 1874 Philip Rice died of
pulmonary tuberculosis in Friedreich's
Dorf at the age of 40 Alexander Graham
Bell had much more luck than rice on the
14th of February 1876 he registered his
phone at the US Patent Office he and his
two brothers while students in Edinburgh
Scotland had already been experimenting
with Rice's apparatus since 1862 they
had found several improvements apart
from the miserable sound quality of
Rice's phone that would squeak more than
speak the device would only transmit in
one direction because of this it was not
really suitable for
after the early death of his two
brothers to tuberculosis Alexander
Graham Bell made further developments to
the phone in 1870 the family moved to
Canada and in addition to his job as a
teacher of the Deaf he devoted himself
to further development of the phone well
since Bell had only his holidays and
Sunday evenings to work on his project
he pulled in the engineer Thomas a
Watson to help him out Bell did not
conceal the fact that he had studied the
works of Phillip rice the rice was not
the only source from which he drew his
information the italian-american antonio
meucci had filed a patent for a
telephone five years before in 1871 but
the request was denied because poor
mayucchi couldn't pay for the processing
fee barrel apparently worked in the
former workshops emoji and with maru
cheese records and mu cheese on
equipment bill developed his own phone
during this time maybe she demanded that
he have his plans back but Bell said
that they were lost near she took Belle
to court but as is the case time and
time again throughout history the one
without enough money could not stand up
to the injustice is caused by those who
did noon she died an impoverished man
and was only after his death at the US
authorities issued a fraud case against
Bell but it gets even more interesting
and juicy only two hours after Bell
submitted his patent in came the
American physicist Elisha gray his
closest rival for the rights over the
invention gray had teamed up with the
Western Union Telegraph Company then the
largest cable company in the u.s. his
patent was of a better design than that
of bells and over the next few years
about six hundred trials were held
against bells patent which finally went
up before the Supreme Court the thanks
to his stepfather who represented him as
a patent attorney Bell was allowed to
continue to profit from his work those
patent of 1876 will become one of the
most profitable property rights of all
time in 1877 he founded the Bell
Telephone Company that spawned one of
the largest telephone communication
companies of our day AT&T by the end of
the 19th century there were over 230,000
telephone lines connected by over
500,000 miles of wire throughout the
United States when Alexander Graham Bell
died on August 1st 1922 all phone
communication in North America was cut
off for a minute to honor the man in
1877 Bell's device
and all the way to Germany and on the
19th of November the German postmaster
ordered the construction of telegraph
wires that would include telephone
capabilities according to a survey by
the International Telecommunication
Union the end of 2006 counted nearly
four billion telephone connections
worldwide of these around 2.7 billion
were mobile connections today Bell is
considered particularly by those in the
u.s. to be the inventor of the telephone
but the basic fact is that the ideas for
his telephone were taken from the works
of antonio meucci and johann philipp
rice after 140 years telecommunications
has reached a whole new dimension our
mobile phones are all around equipment
that we use for more than just the phone
we communicate today via Instagram
pictures videos on vine and YouTube with
likes on Facebook what do you think the
communication device of the future will
look like
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