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Telecommunication, often used in its plural form, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication. As such, slow communications technologies like postal mail and pneumatic tubes are excluded from the definition. Many transmission media have been used for telecommunications throughout history, from smoke signals, beacons, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs to wires and empty space made to carry electromagnetic signals. These paths of transmission may be divided into communication channels for multiplexing, allowing for a single medium to transmit several concurrent communication sessions. Several methods of long-distance communication before the modern era used sounds like coded drumbeats, the blowing of horns, and whistles. Long-distance technologies invented during the 20th and 21st centuries generally use electric power, and include the telegraph, telephone, television, and radio.
Early telecommunication networks used metal wires as the medium for transmitting signals. These networks were used for telegraphy and telephony for many decades. In the first decade of the 20th century, a revolution in wireless communication began with breakthroughs including those made in radio communications by Guglielmo Marconi, who won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. Other early pioneers in electrical and electronic telecommunications include co-inventors of the telegraph Charles Wheatstone and Samuel Morse, numerous inventors and developers of the telephone including Antonio Meucci and Alexander Graham Bell, inventors of radio Edwin Armstrong and Lee de Forest, as well as inventors of television like Vladimir K. Zworykin, John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth.
Since the 1960s, the proliferation of digital technologies has meant that voice communications have gradually been supplemented by data. The physical limitations of metallic media prompted the development of optical fibre. The Internet, a technology independent of any given medium, has provided global access to services for individual users and further reduced location and time limitations on communications. (Full article...)
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Telephony (/təˈlɛfəni/ tə-LEF-ə-nee) is the field of technology involving the development, application, and deployment of telecommunication services for the purpose of electronic transmission of voice, fax, or data, between distant parties. The history of telephony is intimately linked to the invention and development of the telephone.
Telephony is commonly referred to as the construction or operation of telephones and telephonic systems and as a system of telecommunications in which telephonic equipment is employed in the transmission of speech or other sound between points, with or without the use of wires. The term is also used frequently to refer to computer hardware, software, and computer network systems, that perform functions traditionally performed by telephone equipment. In this context the technology is specifically referred to as Internet telephony, or voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). (Full article...)General images
- Image 1The Nipkow disk. This schematic shows the circular paths traced by the holes, which may also be square for greater precision. The area of the disk outlined in black shows the region scanned. (from History of television)
- Image 3The 1969 AT&T Mod II Picturephone, the result of decades long R&D at a cost of over $500M. (from History of telecommunication)
- Image 4The master telephone patent granted to Bell, 174465, March 10, 1876 (from History of the telephone)
- Image 6Emil Voigt, founder of 2KY on behalf of the Labor Council of New South Wales. This photo was taken in earlier days when Voight was a prominent British athlete, and winner of the Gold Medal for the five mile race at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 7Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. (from History of the telephone)
- Image 8An early Smart TV from 2012 running the discontinued Orsay platform (from History of television)
- Image 9Reginald Fessenden (around 1906) (from History of radio)
- Image 10Charles Logwood broadcasting at station 2XG, New York City, circa November, 1916 (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 11The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (from History of television)
- Image 12British Post Office engineers inspect Guglielmo Marconi's wireless telegraphy (radio) equipment in 1897. (from History of radio)
- Image 13Around 1920, radio broadcasting started to get popular. The Brox Sisters, a popular singing group, gathered around the radio at the time. (from History of radio)
- Image 14Artist's conception: 21st-century videotelephony imagined in the early 20th century (1910) (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 15The master telephone patent, 174465, granted to Bell, March 7, 1876 (from History of telecommunication)
- Image 16First television test broadcast transmitted by the NHK Broadcasting Technology Research Institute in May 1939 (from History of television)
- Image 17DBS satellite dishes (from History of television)
- Image 18Caricature of Sir John Reith, by Wooding (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 19Guglielmo Marconi (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 20Australian radio sets usually had the positions of radio stations marked on their dials. The illustration is a dial from a transistorised, mains-operated Calstan radio, circa 1960s. (Click image for a high resolution view, with readable callsigns.) (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 21Donald Manson working as an employee of the Marconi Company (England, 1906) (from History of radio)
- Image 22Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill" (right) (from History of television)
- Image 23The Australian Broadcasting Corporation logo, first introduced in 1975 and based on the Lissajous curve (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 24Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander using an Ericsson videophone to speak with Lennart Hyland, a popular TV show host (1969) (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 25Broadcasting pioneer Frank Conrad in a 1921 portrait (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 26Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 (from History of television)
- Image 27Oliver Lodge's 1894 lectures on Hertz demonstrated how to transmit and detect radio waves. (from History of radio)
- Image 28Color bars used in a test pattern, sometimes used when no program material is available (from History of television)
- Image 29Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1856–1894) proved the existence of electromagnetic radiation. (from History of radio)
- Image 30Top of cellular telephone tower (from History of the telephone)
- Image 31Actor portraying Alexander Graham Bell in a 1932 silent film. Shows Bell's second telephone transmitter (microphone), invented 1876 and first displayed at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia. (from History of the telephone)
- Image 32In the 1920s, the United States government publication, "Construction and Operation of a Simple Homemade Radio Receiving Outfit", showed how almost any person handy with simple tools could a build an effective crystal radio receiver. (from History of radio)
- Image 33Family watching TV, 1958 (from History of television)
- Image 34Antonio Meucci, 1854, constructed telephone-like devices. (from History of the telephone)
- Image 35Lee DeForest broadcasting Columbia phonograph records on pioneering New York station 2XG, in 1916 (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 36An exposed view of the Picturephone's rear circuit board (courtesy: Richard Diehl) (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 37Right side view, housing removed, one of its printed circuit boards exposed (courtesy: Richard Diehl) (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 38Typical low-cost webcam used with many personal computers (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 39A replica of one of Claude Chappe's semaphore towers (optical telegraph) in Nalbach, Germany (from History of telecommunication)
- Image 41"Fiction becomes fact": Imaginary "Edison" combination videophone-television, conceptualized by George du Maurier and published in Punch magazine. The drawing also depicts then-contemporary speaking tubes, used by the parents in the foreground and their daughter on the viewing display (1878). (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 42RCA 630-TS, the first mass-produced television set, which sold in 1946–1947 (from History of television)
- Image 43Historical marker commemorating the first telephone central office in New York State (1878) (from History of the telephone)
- Image 44The British Broadcasting Corporation's landmark and iconic London headquarters, Broadcasting House, opened in 1932. At right is the 2005 eastern extension, the John Peel wing. (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 45Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone signal. (from History of the telephone)
- Image 461917 wall telephone, open to show magneto and local battery (from History of the telephone)
- Image 47Public television in France uses 819 line b&w high definition, from 1959 until 1983 (TF1). (from History of television)
- Image 48Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. (from History of the telephone)
- Image 49The Philco Predicta, 1958. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from History of television)
- Image 50Naomi ("Joan") Melwit and Norman Banks at the 3KZ microphone, in the late 1930s (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 52The first commercial AM Audion vacuum tube radio transmitter, built in 1914 by Lee De Forest who invented the Audion (triode) in 1906 (from History of radio)
- Image 54Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. (from History of the telephone)
- Image 55The "Kerbango Internet Radio" was the first stand-alone product that let users listen to Internet radio without a computer. (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 56AT&T Picturephone (Mod II) fully enclosed in its housing, control pad at bottom (courtesy: Richard Diehl) (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 58A French Gower telephone of 1912 at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris (from History of the telephone)
- Image 59"Doc" Herrold is shown at the microphone of KQW, early 1920s. (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 60Private conversation, 1910 (from History of the telephone)
- Image 61The French Matra videophone (1970) (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 62The Kyocera VP-210 Visual Phone was the first commercial mobile videophone. The Personal Handy-phone System (PHS) phone was introduced in Japan (1999). (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 63Early experiment demonstrating refraction of microwaves by a paraffin lens by John Ambrose Fleming in 1897 (from History of radio)
- Image 64Antonio Meucci's telephone. (from History of the telephone)
- Image 66Code of letters and symbols for Chappe telegraph (Rees's Cyclopaedia) (from History of telecommunication)
- Image 67Old Receiver schematic, c.1906 (from History of the telephone)
- Image 68Philipp Reis, 1861, constructed the first telephone, today called the Reis telephone. (from History of the telephone)
- Image 70The Marconi Company was formed in England in 1910. The photo shows a typical early scene, from 1906, with Marconi employee Donald Manson at right. (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 71Reginald Fessenden, the "father" of radio broadcasting in the US (from History of broadcasting)
- Image 72Philo Farnsworth in 1924 (from History of television)
- Image 73AT&T magazine advertisement announcing commercial launch of Picturephone service. (from History of videotelephony)
- Image 74The Regency TR-1, which used Texas Instruments' NPN transistors, was the world's first commercially produced transistor radio in 1954. (from History of radio)
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Alexander Graham Bell (/ˈɡreɪ.əm/, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.[additional citation(s) needed]
Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf; profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone, on March 7, 1876. Bell considered his invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study. (Full article...)Did you know (auto-generated) - load new batch
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