George Johnson
was present at the first telephone calls from the home of Alexander Graham Bell
in Brantford, Ontario. When offered a chance to try the telephone, he deliberately confused the listener at the other...
Friends, Associates
Sara Jeannette Duncan
George Brown
, newspaper editor and later politician, was a friend of Charles Duncan and visited the Duncan home with some regularity. Another family friend was Alexander Graham Bell
.
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983.
31, 32
Timeline
3 March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patented the telep...
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3 March 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
patented the telephone.
Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet. Walker and Company, 1998.
197
10 August 1876: The first telephone conversation over a significant...
Building item
10 August 1876
The first telephone conversation over a significant distance (eight miles) was made by Alexander Graham Bell
.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 479
1878: Two years after the first microphone (a telephone...
Building item
1878
Two years after the first microphone (a telephone transmitter made for Alexander Graham Bell
), David Edward Hughes
invented the carbon microphone, forerunner of those which revolutionised sound recording around 1925.
Bellis, Mary. “The History of Microphones”. About.com: Inventors.
1886: Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and...
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1886
Alexander Graham Bell
, Chichester Bell
, and Charles Tainter
, vastly improved the sound recording ability of Thomas Edison
's phonograph with their invention of the graphophone.
Millard, Andre J. America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
