The Invention of the Telephone

In 1870 Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell had both be working on the design for the telephone independently. They both rushed their designs to the patent office on the same day within hours of each other. There was a huge court fight over whose phone got the patent first. Alexander Graham Bell won the famous battle and was declared the first person who invented the telephone.



The definition of the telephone is an instrument that reproduces sounds at a distance. (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. 1989, pg 1212) A device that is used to transmit and recieve sound is definition of a telecommunication. The telephone transmits and recieves sound at various distances apart from each other. Most of telephones operate through a transmission of electric signals. There is a complex telephone network that allows any user to communicate with each other.



Alexander Graham Bell had been interested in the education of deaf peoplehis whole life, which lead him to the invention of the microphone. A device that electric sound was converted from sound. Electrical Speech Machine was also invented by Bell after the invention of the microphone. We now call the electrical speech machine the telephone.