On April 25th we celebrate National Telephone Day. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell introduced the first version of a telephone. The telephone was first referred to as the electric speech machine. “Mr Watson…Come here…I want to see you” were the first words spoken into a telephone by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant Thomas A. Watson. (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/alexander-graham-bell-patents-the-telephone).
Since 1876 the telephone invention has emerged as one of the most successful products ever. Times have changed and today people are familiar with the modern technology in telephones such as the Droid, iPhone and Blackberry. It is a different world carrying a phone in your pocket compared to the telephone that was hard-wired to the wall or sat on a desk with a cord and a rotary dial. What would Alexander Graham Bell think today about having internet capability, voice activation, built-in camera, games, calendar, alarm clock, calculator, and music on a telephone?
Celebrate National Telephone Day by calling someone and telling them Happy National Telephone Day! Share your vintage telephone pictures on Social Media using #NationalTelephoneDay to show the different telephones that have been used!
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