The First Telephone
How the first telephone was made
One of the largest American inventions was the telephone. The phone grew from something that was not a requirement to something that people had to have. The telephone has had a great deal of influence on culture and the way we connect and still plays a major role in today's world. The telephone opened the door to communication worldwide and played a role in the growth of personal and corporate communities by enabling individuals from diverse countries to interact effortlessly with each other.
The first telephone has made communication easier in modern times because, now with one touch of a button you can call anyone in the world in a matter of seconds, from long distance to short distance. Before Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone the only form of communication was a telegraph. The telegraph would often take over 6 hours to send a message. Another key concern with the telegraph was that it used Morse code which was limited to one message at a time being transmitted and received.
Alexander Graham Bell had a good understanding of the nature of music and sound. This made it possible for him to perceive at one time the possibility of transmitting more than one message along the same wire. The design of Alexander was not new; some had imagined a multiple telegraph before him. His own approach, the Harmonic Telegraph, was proposed by Alexander. This was based on the idea that if certain notes varied in pitch, musical notes could be sent simultaneously down the same wire.
Alexander's experiment had succeeded enough by the latter part of 1874 for him to warn nearby family members about the possibility of a multiple telegraph. Attorney Gardner Green Hubbard, Bell's future father saw the chance to break the Western Union Telegraph Company's monopoly. He offered Alexander the financial backing needed to build the multiple telegraph for him to pursue his work. However Alexander failed to mention that he and his accomplice, another brilliant young electrician Thomas Watson, were developing an idea which occurred to him during the summer. This idea was to create a device that could transmit the human voice electrically.
At the encouragement of Hubbard and a few other financial supporters, Alexander and Watson proceeded to work on the harmonic telegraph. Without Hubbard's information, Bell encountered a man named Joseph Henry in March 1875. The esteemed director of the Smithsonian Institution was Joseph Henry. He carefully listened to the ideas of Bell and gave words of encouragement. The views of Henry inspired both Alexander and Watson and continued their work with much greater enthusiasm and dedication. By June 1875, they learned that they would quickly realize their dream of developing a system that could relay speech electrically. Their tests showed that the frequency of an electrical current in a wire can vary in various tones.
All they had to do now was create a system with an acceptable membrane capable of converting certain tones into various electronic currents and a receiver to replicate the variations and at the other end convert them back into audible shape. Alexander learned at the beginning of June that he could detect a tone over the wire while working on his harmonic telegraph. It was the sound of a twanging spring clock.It was on March 10th, 1876, that Bell first understood his new device's progress and contact ability. That with a revamped telegraph machine, which was largely based on only dots and dashes, greatly outweighed the possibilities of being able to communicate down an electric cable.
According to Alexander's notebook entry for that date, he describes his most successful experiment using his new piece of equipment, the telephone. Bell spoke to his assistant Watson, who was in the next room, through the instrument and said "Mr Watson, come here, I want to speak to you."
Alexander Graham Bell's relevance to today's culture is noticeable, or more audible, everywhere. The handset has been significantly modified by advances in tone dialing, call tracking, music on pause, and electronic ringers. This fantastic innovation enables us to connect 24 hours a day with the whole globe. Progress would have been much slower without the telephone and people would not have been so open to reform.The invention of Bells has served civilization well and will continue to give a vital service to society for years to come. Perhaps the most fascinating phenomenon, though, is that the cell phone has liberated us from the limits of space. Close with general comments of how progress influenced the arts and the environment in general. Of course, it is just a sad condition that cell phones were not available on the Savannah at the beginning of our life. If they had been, then the guy must certainly have phoned home to the cave and said, "Light the fire, honey, because with half a lion, I'll be home soon." Mobile telephony is not a matter of radio waves and circuitry, but rather of human correspondence, in the final judgment. We need to speak to each other and from the day we got up on two legs, the need has been paramount. For our life, connectivity is crucial. The inventions in telecommunications will cease to exist, along with civilization, without communicating to each other.
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