This is one of two telephones used by Bell in a demonstration between Boston and Salem, Mass., Nov. Pressing the receiver against his ear, Watson heard Bell’s message: “Mr. On March 10, 1876, three days after his patent was issued, Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, made the first successfully transmitted message. On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the telephone. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.Now, it’s a rare person who doesn’t own or have access to a telephone. Within just a few decades, communication that would have taken months or more for our immigrant ancestors with their families overseas could take place in real time, and the world of communication was changed forever, leading to the mobile phone technology we enjoy all over the world today. This was long after a trans-Atlantic cable was laid to make international phone calls possible. Rural areas of the United States didn’t get phone service until after WWII. The adoption of the telephone was gradual, and many towns just had one town phone for a lot of years before getting individual household phones. Deadwood, on the frontier, remained the exception for the first few decades of the use of the telephone. Gradually, other towns started getting telephone service, though it was usually only the big cities in the beginning. Eventually, Deadwood had a telephone operator’s office and many of the homes and businesses in town had individual telephones for calling each other. It had a line that connected directly to the White House. It was on the edge of the American frontier at the time, and the town just had one phone that was made available to the whole town to use. The first town to get city-wide telephone service was Deadwood, South Dakota, in March of 1878. Then, gradually, their friends and family began to get telephones. The first households to get telephones were of people who had dealings with the President. Slowly, other households, usually of wealthy people, began to get telephones and could call each other. It was the first use of a telephone in a residence. Hayes installed the first telephone in the White House in 1879.
The telephone switch allowed telephone exchanges to be formed, which led to the invention of telephone networks. The telephone switch was invented just a few weeks after the telephone, and the patent was granted to Tivadar Puskas, a Hungarian inventor. The patent was granted in March of 1876 and became the master patent, upon which all additional patents for improvements on the telephone followed. While more than one inventor claimed to be the first to invent the telephone, Bell was the first to patent it, so he generally gets the credit for it in history. A couple of decades later, Alexander Graham Bell and other inventors were working on an improvement to the telegraph in the form of the telephone. It was this way for all of human history since the invention of writing up until that time.
Until the telegram was invented in the mid-1800’s, letters, which often took weeks or months to arrive at their destination, were the only way to communicate with people over long distances. Here’s how the telephone was adopted by cities and gradually made its way into households as a regular part of daily living for most Americans. The White House had the first household telephone, while the first city-wide telephone was in the frontier town of Deadwood, South Dakota. The adoption of the use of the telephone after its invention is interesting. By 1900, it was already present in some private households. The telephone was invented earlier than most people may realize.
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