This history of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone...

short form of the term is phone, which came into use early in the telephone's history. Nowadays, phones are almost always in the form of smartphones...

timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone. 1667:...

The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In...

operator. Over the course of telephone history, telephone numbers had various lengths and formats and even included most letters of the alphabet in leading...

patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies. The concept of the telephone dates back to the string telephone or lover's telephone that has...

A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers...

after the telephone was patented in 1876, and its history is closely connected to that of the telephone. Barely two years after the telephone was first...

A telephone company is a kind of electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides...

The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network. While the transmission...