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Elisha Gray: American inventor who contested the invention of the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell.
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In 1831, Englishman Michael Faraday proved that vibrations of metal could be converted to electrical impulses. This was the technological basis of the telephone. Source: The Great Idea Finder
The Telephone (1988): directed by Rip Torn & starring Whoopi Goldberg. A crazy out of work actress spends all her time in her apartment with her pet owl and telephone. Source: Internet Movie Database
1.2 billion: the number of people worldwide who will be subscribing to cellular phone services by 2005, according to some experts’ predictions.
Stun gun cellphone: this cellphone does not make calls, but it will discharge 180,000 volts and activate a siren alarm up to 130 decibels.
Hanging On The Telephone by Blondie. See lyrics
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
(James Thurber US novelist, humorist, cartoonist)
Decibel is an eponym (a word whose origin is the name of a person), as it originated from the name of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Word Oddities
The Telephone by Robert Frost
“When I was just as far as I could walk
From here to-day ..."
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February 14, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both filed for a patent on their designs of telephones at the New York patent office, with Bell beating Gray by only two hours! Source: The Great Idea Finder
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