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How Phones Work- The Basic Science Behind Telephones – THG Blog (1)

How Phones Work: The Basic Science Behind Telephones

Before diving into the workings of the very earliest phones, let’s talk about how they work in general. After all, the phones of today work the same way as Bell’s and all the phones of yesteryear. Sure, the trappings are different; we use computers instead of operators, air instead of wires to transmit our voices, but the premise behind all of it is the same—so much so, in fact, that you could hook up a phone from the early 1900s to your wall and still get it to work!
July 21, 2018Jason-Atlas
A Time Before Phones- The Inventions Leading Up to the Telephone – THG Blog (1)

A Time Before Phones: The Inventions Leading Up to the Telephone

The development of all the bits and pieces of the telephone make for interesting reading all by themselves (or perhaps you haven’t yet read the other articles in this section!), but it is at least as interesting looking over the various inventions that lead up to the telephone—and finding out just how many inventions went into making the phone possible. What follows is a timeline taking us from the time before phones to the development of the phone itself.
April 24, 2018Jason-Atlas
The Telephone Patent Follies- How the Invention of the Phone was Bell’s, and not Gray’s – THG Blog (1)

The Telephone Patent Follies: How the Invention of the Phone was Bell’s, and not Gray’s, or…

Patents can be nutty things. Designed to protect inventors (whether individual or business) in the same way that copyrights protect authors, US patents can be applied for for any number of items, ranging from the strange and unmarketable to the most basic and valuable. The owner of a patent is protected against others “making, using, or selling the invention in the United States” (US Patent Office Website) for a number of years, after which the patented object is fair game and can be made, used, or sold by anyone.
February 22, 2018Jason-Atlas