KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Alexander Graham Bell is credited with being the inventor of the telephone since his patent and demonstrations for an apparatus designed for “transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically… causing electrical undulations” were successful. First Bell Telephone, June 1875.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 7 March 1876, Bell was granted US patent 174465A, for a method of transmitting speech by telegraphy-the telephone.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated this type of phone when he visited Britain in 1877-78. Known as ‘Bell’s box telephone’, it was the very first type of telephone to go on sale. Above: Illustration of the equipment demonstrated by Bell in London in December 1877. The Illustrated London News Dec 15 1877.