This history of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone...

short form of the term is phone, which came into use early in the telephone's history. Nowadays, phones are almost always in the form of smartphones...

timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone. 1667:...

The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In...

operator. Over the course of telephone history, telephone numbers had various lengths and formats and even included most letters of the alphabet in leading...

patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies. The concept of the telephone dates back to the string telephone or lover's telephone that has...

A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers...

after the telephone was patented in 1876, and its history is closely connected to that of the telephone. Barely two years after the telephone was first...

A telephone company is a kind of electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides...

prefix: 0 This is a list of telephone dialling codes for the Republic of Ireland. Fixed-line telephone users do not need to dial the dialling code when they...

The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network. While the transmission...

The Telephone Cases, 126 U.S. 1 (1888), were a series of U.S. court cases in the 1870s and the 1880s related to the invention of the telephone, which culminated...

A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing...

A telephone keypad is a keypad installed on a push-button telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized...

push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones. Western...

to be directed. History of the telephone Sound-powered telephone Speaking tube McVeigh, Daniel P. An Early History of the Telephone: 1664–1866: Robert...

ringers in telephone sets and activate signals on operator consoles. Telegraphy pre-dated telephony and magnetos were used to drive some of the early printing...

History of telecommunications. History of the Internet History of podcasting History of radio History of television History of the telephone History of...

known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, which is the system for assigning telephone numbers to subscriber stations. Telephone numbers are of variable...

Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom have a flexible structure that reflects their historical demands, starting from many independent companies through...

across the Atlantic. It was active until 1965. Although a telephone cable was discussed starting in the 1920s, to be practical it needed a number of technological...

Telephone numbers in Asia have the most possible prefixes of any continent on Earth: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9. Below is a list of country calling codes for various...

The Reis telephone was an invention named after Philipp Reis of a telephone-like device he constructed. Reis's first successful work is dated to October...

answering telephone calls and recording callers' messages. When a telephone rings a set number of times predetermined by the call's recipient the answering...

inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. It was the first device to transmit a voice via...

transmission of voice, fax, or data, between distant parties. The history of telephony is intimately linked to the invention and development of the telephone. Telephony...

(Inventor of the telephone). The U.S. House of Representatives in a resolution in 2002 also acknowledged Meucci's work in the invention of the telephone, although...

with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa. Telephone numbering plan National conventions for writing telephone numbers List of country...

The Pacific Bell Telephone Company (Pac Bell) is a telephone company that provides telephone service in California. The company is owned by AT&T through...

The history of AT&T dates back to the invention of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell, who obtained...