The Secret Life of the Telephone

Watch the video to find out how the Telephone came to be.
Video after the jump.

” The forerunner of the telephone was the telegraph. By 1870 all major towns in Europe and America had telegraphs, sending messages in ‘on’ and ‘off’ pulses (e.g. Morse code). It was while trying to improve the telegraph that Bell discovered the telephone.”


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  1. interesting, but they forget Meucci..


  2. Meucci rox !

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