Inventing the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell’s experiments culminated in the invention of the telephone

2 August marks the anniversary of the death of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, in 1922. Bell developed the first practical telephone for which he was issued a US patent in 1876.

By coincidence, it is also the anniversary of the birth of Elisha Gray, who developed a telephone prototype in 1876 and is considered by some to be the true inventor of the telephone.

More pictures of telephones can be found here. A wider variety of images relating to the history of communication can also be found at the Look and Learn picture library.