1800s Telephone
Telephone
Zoom This! Communication is a vital part of human existence. Even from the earliest time, people have used so many ways to stay in touch with each other.
In the late eighteen hundreds, Alexander Graham Bell, a native of Scotland, created an amazing invention in his laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts. It was named the telephone. This device could be used to speak personally, voice to voice, with someone else, no matter what the distance. It turned out, though, that Bell was not the only one with an idea for a telephone. A man by the name of Elisha Gray was also working on a similar invention. They both perfected their creations about the same time and then raced against each other to see who would first get a patent. Needless to say, Bell won, and the rest is history.
Telephones back then were a far cry from the tiny, cordless handhelds we have today. They started out as nothing more than a piece of tubing attached on one end to a desk, and on the other to a mouthpiece. Since then, they have slowly morphed into the phones we now know and love. In the beginning, you would have to dial the operator who would then connect you to the person with whom you wanted to speak. This was the case with one such telephone which was little more than a wooden box hanging on the wall. On the front of it was a mouthpiece with a pair of bells above it. On some models, the front also sported a slanted stand on which one could rest a small book. On the right side of the telephone was a hand crank and on the left side hung an earpiece attached to the box by a wire.
Today, there are only a handful of these unique telephones left. People began to recognize that these phones were not very effective because of having to always dial the operator first. Sometime around the turn of the century, the telephone companies started taking out every old phone in the houses of the public and replacing them with the latest upgrades. They burned them, buried them, crushed them, and threw them into wells. Off of one such bonfire in Virginia, this particular telephone was rescued. It is still in wonderful condition and it hangs contentedly on the wall where it can be a continual reminder of days gone by.
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