Who invented the telephone?

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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. The first words he spoke on his telephone were, “Watson, come here. I need you.” Watson was his assistant’s name. That happened in 1875-76. However Antonio Meucci had a working telephone since 1848 in Havana and a perfected model by 1871. On that year Meucci filed for [...]

When Was Television Invented? What Year was Television Brought to Market?

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A difficult question, the television we watch today is based on a few concepts that were all brought together to create the modern day television.   There is the mechanical side of things, and the electronic side of things. The electromechanical television was first patented in 1885 by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow.  It was a spinning disk [...]

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