Edison’s telephone an improvement of Bell’s?

Telephone [Photo provided = imagetoday]

Patent : Telephone (US222390A)

Year : 1878

Country : United States

Region : Menlo Par New Jersey

Name : Thomas A Edison

All existing home appliances have its prototypes. In this third session of introduction to Edison there will be a presentation of two patents of the first telephones. Telephones being daily necessaries Graham and Edison’s patents were the nascent patents of modern telephones.

In the 1850s telegraph communication was the norm. Samuel F. B. Morse well known for the ‘Morse code’ invented the telegraph and founded the Western Union Telegraph Company in the United States. Western Union leading successfully leading the industry telegraph expanded its realm and rapid technological development was made.

In the year of 1876 Graham Bell patented technology that transmits voice instead of codes now what we call telephone technology. That day an Western Union employee Elisha Gray registered the telephone patent two hours later which made her to be the second patentee.

A year later Bell established The Bell Telephone Company. However at the time the telephone industry was not considered to be promising. Even Gray had negative predictions and a senior employee of the Western Union said that telephones had too many flaws to be settled as means of communication.

Bell had different thoughts. He presented his receiver in exhibitions which brought substantial results. It drew big interest of the Brazilian emperor in the 1876 Centennial Exposition.

After this incident Western Union decided to enter the telephone industry. One of its inventors Thomas Edison invented telephone using carbon particles. He named it ‘carbon-telephones’ and patented (US222390A) it.

The invention had functional advantage over Bell’s receiver. Bell bought the patent from Western Union and in return the company should stand away from the telephone industry. He applied the technology to improve the original telephone.

Bell’s receiver and Edison’s transmitter synergized well each other as parts of telephone. As The Bell Telephone Company acquired a exclusive position still remains as the name of AT&T.

Bell’s telephone the genesis ascended to perfection after combining with Edison’s patent. Telephone being one of the most important means of communication nowadays the two great inventors and its creations should be the ones to be remembered.

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