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From Telegraph to Telephone The invention

 You may find this hard to believe but when Alexander Graham Bell Set out he was not trying to discover the business telephone.  Given how dependant people had become on the telegraph to send text messages there was a need to figure out how to put more than one message on the same set of wires to speed up the process.    Bell stumbled upon the phone and its ability to do voice transmission during his discovery and over the years you can see how it evolves and why.   The first phone was more or less a candlestick and required humans to make every call connection.   As advancements occurred you see how Bell Labs later Lucent Telephone later create a switch to do this with humans.                                                                          Telephones Over the years Lucent Telephone ( AT&T) and Later Avaya invent many amazing phone systems.  The telegraph was great for Governments, Businesses, and the average person.  Today more than ever businesses rely on their phone sys

10 Things Invented at Bell Labs AT&T you did not know about

 You might be surprised to discover just how many things Alexander Graham Bells Laboratories invented that we use without thought of whom invented them....  1st and the most amazing was Bell's contributions to the aircraft industry. Bell co-founded the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) with his wife, Mabel, in the fall of 1907. This dynamic team consisted of six people, including Mabel, the first woman in history to propose, establish, and fund a research group. Aside from the revolutionary invention of the telephone Bell Labs later called Lucent did not just invent the telephone but many other amazing products.  Did you know that Bell Labs (AT&T) Invented UNIX operating system?  Unix is clearly one of the major forces in industry today with everything from Servers to smartphones powered in part by Unix.   Things change at Warp Speed and the innovation at AT&T / Bell Labs was no stranger to incredible things such as they invented Motion Pictures so that distraction of a

The Man who began it all

  Alexander Graham Bell,  a teacher of the deaf was on a quest to help people who could not hear find a new way.    Bell, had sought a way to transmit speech electronically. He invented the  telephone  in March 1876. The earliest design of a telephone was rather simple compared to anything we have today.   The earliest telephones had only one wire for transmitting and receiving of audio and used a ground with a return path. The earliest dynamic telephones also had only one opening (Cavity) for sound, and the user listened and spoke into the same hole. Over the years Bell refined his telephone and helped build a network.  At first, it was a luxury of the elite and wealthy. Thus the telecom tax to pay for World War I was placed on the early phone network and still continues to this day.    In 1925, Bell realized he needed to grow his organization and build a team.  Thus in Alexander Graham Bell founded Bell Labs a  joint effort of the Western Electric Research Laboratory and part of AT&a