The Reis telephone, an invention by Johann Philipp Reis, a self-taught German scientist and inventor was constructed in 1861. It is considered by many today as the first make-and-break telephone ...

FACTS ABOUT THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY'S CLAIMS. Share full article. Nov. 22, 1891. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 22, 1891, Page 19 ...

Top 10 facts about telephones ON March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s first telephone call to his assistant Thomas Watson in the next room saying “Mr. Watson, come here.

THE FIRST TELEPHONE MESSAGE MAY HAVE BEEN A CALL FOR HELP. It was while experimenting with acoustic telegraphy alongside his assistant Thomas Watson, a machinist, that Bell invented the telephone.

According to a history put out by the Gray Telephone Pay Station Company in the 1930s, years after Gray had died, he came up with the idea in 1888, when his wife was ill and he needed to get the ...

Historians say Reis built the first “modern” telephone, but you probably wouldn’t recognize it. It was 150 years ago last month that Reis showed off his invention. First, you spoke into a ...

On Sept. 1, 1878, Alexander Graham Bell hired Emma Nutt as the first female telephone operator. Bell didn't like the attitude of the teenage boys he had hired previously.

The name Alexander Graham Bell has become indelibly tied to the telephone (so much so that I'm surprised we don't call those handheld lifelines Bell phones instead of cell phones). It was 100 years ...

And, when the first undersea transatlantic telephone cable went into service in 1956, Coogan was part of the crew that made sure all the connection circuits worked.