Two inventors in the 1870s, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray were both independently designing what would later be known as the telephone. Both men rushed their designs to the patent office the same day, just hours apart. Alexander Graham Bell got there first and his telephone was the one to be patented. His design resulted from trying to improve the telegraph. Bell's success with the telephone came about on March 10, 1876 when he spoke through the instrument to his assistant in the next room, Thomas A. Watson.
Bell first famously said, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you," over this device, proving that it actually worked. The telephone changed the world because it was the first way to use a harmonic approach to transmitting multiple messages at a time. We are still using the telephone today, showing how important the invention was and still is.
No comments:
Post a Comment