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Tags: journalism history , Media History , MediaWire. David Shedden. What does it mean? November 11, Tom Jones. The blog series also reports significant new programs, initiatives, and acquisitions of Special Collections. Smartphones today bear little physical resemblance to the first telephones developed in the 's, but the ultimate goal of this technology remains the same: to give people the opportunity to instantly communicate with others regardless of physical distance.
In this blog post, we'll some interesting pictures from our collections and learn about the first transatlantic phone call! Long-distance communication before the invention of the telephone was conducted via letters, early forms of fax machines, and telegraphs. The telephone was developed by businessmen and inventors over several years, and controversy abounds as to who can be called the definitive inventor of the telephone.
Charles Grafton Page discovered a way to use electricity passing through wire to make sound in Antonio Meucci is believed to have created an early telephone in the 's. The greatest controversy regarding the invention of the telephone is between Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, with accusations of theft of Gray's ideas by Bell and debate that continues to this day over whether the two independently invented the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell's name ultimately became most associated with the development of the telephone. The first official transatlantic phone call took place 94 years ago, on January 7, The call was not transmitted by wire, but by radio waves. Gifford, who was in New York City, and Gifford, who was in London, shared prepared statements on the significance of this technology with regards to fostering better understanding and facilitating business.
This call was recorded and is available through the Library of Congress and can be heard online. Following the call, the line was open to personal and business-related calls. Shreeve and A. The talk from Washington this morning, heard both in Paris and Honolulu…establishes as a fact that under favorable atmospheric and electrical conditions, with proper equipment which the engineers of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company have developed, we will be able to carry on conversation between New York and European points as well as to the western coast and points across the Pacific Ocean.
The speech transmission to Paris was possible because engineer and tower designer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel wanted to keep the tower that bore his name useful. So, he affixed an antenna to the top in , so that people could conduct experiments in wireless telegraphy.
The city subsequently re-funded the tower rather than disassembling it for scrap metal. Paris and Arlington had exchanged wireless signals for the first time two years earlier, in , to measure the difference in longitude between the two cities.
After the speech transmission in , it would then take more than 11 more years for the first two-way transatlantic call to take place, between New York and London and in the meantime, TIME was founded; read the magazine item about the call here. Of course, speech transmission has come a long way in the past hundred years. Radio calls eventually developed into mobile radio telephone systems, which gave way to cellular systems, then digital cellular networks and the technology carrying cell phone calls today.
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