Alexander Graham Bell Experimental Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell Experimental Telephone
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- Description
- Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated several experimental telephones at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. This unit features a single electro-magnet and could be used both as transmitter and receiver. Bell approached the problem of transmitting speech differently from other telephone inventors like Elisha Gray and Thomas Edison. They were mostly experienced telegraphers trying to make a better telegraph. Bell's study of hearing and speech more strongly influenced his work.
- Object Name
- experimental telephone
- telephone
- date made
- 1876
- maker
- Bell, Alexander G.
- Physical Description
- wood (base material)
- brass (posts material)
- tin (mouthpiece material)
- brass (brackets material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 1/2 in x 5 in x 11 in; 16.51 cm x 12.7 cm x 27.94 cm
- ID Number
- EM.252599
- accession number
- 49064
- catalog number
- 252599
- patent number
- 174465
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Communications
- Computers & Business Machines
- American Enterprise
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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