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Historical Archived Articles: Invention of the Telephone
1874 - 1911

 
 
 
Alexander Graham Bell's design sketch of the telephone, ca. 1876.

 

 

Alexander Graham Bell Speaking on the Phone, 1892. Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Bell's first telephone approved for Post Office use Late 19th and early 20th-century telephones

"The telephone may be briefly described as an electrical contrivance for reproducing in distant places the tones and articulations of a speaker's voice."   Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

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Telegraphy - New Inventions in the Science of Electrical Transmission. New York Times,  July 10, 1874,   p. 2

The Telephone.  New York Times, March 22, 1876, p. 4

The Speaking Telephone New York Times, March 22, 1876, p. 2

Audible Speech by Telegraph New York Times, October 21, 1876, p. 8

The Telephone; History of the Instrument and its InventorNew York Times, February 3,1877,  p. 2

The Telephone - More Interesting Experiments between Boston and Salem New York Times, February 27, 1877, p. 5

The Telephone.  New York Times, March 4, 1877, p. 6

Telephones and Their Use New York Times, July 10,1877,  p. 2

The Telephone Unmasked New York Times, October 13,1877,  p. 4

An Electrical Outrage. New York Times, November 28,1877,  p. 4

The Phones of the Future. New York Times, June 9, 1878  p. 6

The Panama Canal and Improved Phones New York Times, August 29,1879  p. 3

Embargo on the Telephone New York Times, February 9, 1880,  p. 4

A Rival of Telegraphy. New York Times, February 7, 1881,  p. 5

Decision Regarding the Telephone Inventions. New York Times, July 22, 1883, p. 5

Prof. Bell's Claims Upheld, Judge Wallace's Decision in the Great Telephone Case New York Times, December 2, 1884,  p. 8

A Fraudulent Monopoly New York Times, March 23, 1886, p. 1

The Telephone Octopus; It's Reach and Rapacity Again Demonstrated.  New York Times, November 15, 1887, p. 8

Cheap Telephony. New York Times, March 12, 1895, p. 4

How Conversation Across a Continent Came About New York Times, July 9, 1911, p. SM10

 

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