• Question: who made the first phone

    Asked by anon-190399 to Matt, Maia, Liam, Dionne on 15 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Dionne Turnbull

      Dionne Turnbull answered on 15 Nov 2018:

      Antonio Meucci invented the ‘telletrofono’ in 1854, but Alexander Graham Bell gets the credit for developing the first practical telephone, he got a patent for it in 1876.
      Things have changed a lot since then, I bet they never would have dreamed that everyone would have a smartphone back then!

    • Photo: Liam Taylor

      Liam Taylor answered on 16 Nov 2018:

      Exactly as Dionne has said! Did you know the first words spoken on the telephone were from Alexander Graham Bell, calling his assistant – “Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you”. 🙂

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