Essays
This section is for all the stuff that doesn't fit into any of the other categories.
A brief look at some of the early transmitters designed to get around Bell's patents. A gas-powered transmitter? Some of the oddities as well as those that worked.
The man who made Bell's telephones work. He is better known for his work on the Gramophone.
He almost certainly invented the first working telephone, but he overlooked one critical fact. He didn't realise that he had invented it.
A brilliant man who laid the groundwork for many carbon transmitters.
A popular and reliable telephone widely used in Australia.
Did he really invent the telephone?
He is mainly known for his work on powered flight, but he also designed telephones and invented the forerunner of the radio broadcasting station.
An idea before its time?
Obscure and rare.
British inventor of a successful carbon-pencil telephone.
11. Western Electric Model 285
An attractive but rather mysterious little phone.
Not the best transmitter, perhaps, but it stayed in production for a long time.
A process of steady development, unlike transmitters
A successful early U.S. handset phone from Kellogg and others.
15. Plastics and the Telephone
Plastics were an essential part of the telephone from the early days. This article traces some of the more important ones.
16. The Ericsson Skeletal Phone
Call it the Skeletal, Eiffel Tower, Sewing Machine - it is one of the world's classic telephones and one of Ericssons' most successful.
17. The Western Electric No. 317
Another classic magneto telephone.
18. Indian Telephone Industries - the 332 telephones
Originals and reproductions.
19. The British Western Electric "Eiffel Tower"
Rarer than the Ericsson, practically unknown in the U.S.
20. The Telephones of Thomas Edison
This incredible inventor explored the scientific priciples used in many later telephones.
21. The British Post Office 300 Series Telephones
Used in many countries over many decades.
An early inventor of some obscure telephones.