The Telephone

The telephone is an invention that collectively changed the world. A portable communication device that you can take anywhere with you and reach anyone in the world with it. Invented by American inventor Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and it has been evolving ever since. In this essay I will describe how the telephone has impacted the United States of America and society as a whole since its invention in 1876. I will also describe how we evolved and modified it from 1876 to present day and finally I will describe how it was applied to our situation and the impact it had on information technology.

The telephone has made a lot of tasks easier since its invention. The first is that it has made business much easier and efficient. If we didn’t have the telephone then we would have to travel from point A to point B to conduct business. Instead we can just conduct business over the telephone which saves money and is much more convenient. Because of the invention and popularity of the phone jobs were started which brought about a lot of business and brought a lot of revenue to our nation. Another asset the telephone has provided is being able to just communicate with whoever you want to. Before the telephone then you would have had to go to someone’s house or just write and send them a letter or telegraph if you wanted to get in touch with them. Now with the invention of telephone then society has been able to communicate more easily and cheaply than they could have if they didn’t have the telephone.

As stated before one of the main avenues of communication was mail. However since the invention of the telephone then the use of mail is not used in the same fashion as it was before 1876. Since the invention and evolution of the telephone we have been able to communicate with one another much more easily than beforehand. It is the number one means of long distance communication and just communicating overall.

Next I will describe how the telephone has evolved since its invention in 1876. After its first invention and call in 1876 the first transatlantic call was placed in 1915 by bell. In 1956 the first transatlantic call was placed which successfully connected the west and eastern hemispheres successfully via the telephone. In 1960 the rotary phones were replaced by touch tone phones which made dialing so much faster and easier. Because of this touch tone phone then in the future then texting would be made possible with these new dial keys that would eventually be the keyboard.

In 1973 the first cellphone call was made which was a historic event. It was a historic event because it was the first cellular phone call and our society started to move away from wired phones after this event. In 1984 the first cellular phone out of the Motorola Company hit markets and the mass production of cellular phones erupted. Throughout the 90’s phone companies tried to gain the upper hand on each other as these phones grew smaller and evolved. In 1992 the first text message was sent and received and then 8 years later in the year 2000 the first cell phone with a camera was sold.

In the early 2000’s the blackberry and palm came into the cellular world and the two tried to out compete each other in the market. Then in 2007 apple introduced the first iPhone which would take them above and beyond the rest of the competition. A year after that Google came out with the first android. After that more and more smartphones became more and more like computers and less like phones. Today we have portable phones that are part phone part computer and they can do so much more than just text and call. All of that wouldn’t have been possible without Alexander Graham Bell.

The telephone was invented in 1876 and ever since it evolved every step of the way that we needed to and as it did it became more advanced as described earlier. The telephone had a great impact because it helped long distance communication substantially. It allowed for us to communicate much quicker and faster than we had ever seen before. Written mail was the most efficient form of communication before the telephone and when the telephone was invented then it went above and beyond the mail business and made it obsolete with the speed and reliability of the telephone.

In conclusion the telephone was one of the most monumental inventions that not only our nation but also the world had ever seen. The telephone was invented in 1876 and his invention was world changing. With the invention of the telephone it made many tasks easier in our society as a whole. Business deals were made easier and it was conducted better as a whole with telephones. This happened because they were able to be conducted long distance instead of driving back and forth. With the production of phones then jobs and new business corporations were installed. Phones went from rotary to dial touch toned. They then went from wireless and then to smart phones making them much more convenient to take from place to place and the phone user could do a lot more than just call. Phones helped the world communicate with long and short distance with high reliability and speed. This is the telephones impact on both society and information technology.

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