When were phones invented

Ahoy! If Graham Alexander Bell - the inventor of the world’s first telephone - had his way, that would be our standard greeting when answering the phone. Instead, Thomas Edison suggested “Hello”, a term that - like the telephone - quickly spread through our culture to the point where it’s hard to imagine a day without using it. 

These days, the smartphone is king, offering internet, organisational tools and calls in a pocket-sized package.

How did the telephone impact society

However, a look back into the history of the home phone provides a reminder of why in a world of Facebook messages and Snapchats, simply picking up the phone to a friend or loved one still holds value.

The First Home Phone

Alexander Graham Bell stumbled upon the idea for a whole new form of communication while searching for ways to improve the code-based telegraph system.

Researching ways to send multiple telegraph signals down a single wire, he was struck with the idea of a “harmonic telegraph”, that would transmit sound rather than visual information. From here, he spent many years experimenting with the transmission of non-verbal soun

when did phones become common in households

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