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Bell in his experiments. The Bell family emigrated to Brantford, Ontario, Canada, in 1. Graham's two brothers from tuberculosis.

From here Bell moved to Boston in the United States in 1. He had inherited an interest in the training of deaf children from his father, Alexander Melville Bell, who had been a teacher of elocution at Edinburgh. Graham Bell's vocation led him to investigate the artificial reproduction of vowel sounds, resulting in a study of electricity and magnetism, and ultimately the development of the telephone. On 1. 4 February an application was filed in America for a patent for Bell's apparatus for transmitting vocal sounds. Within hours, Elisha Gray of Chicago (1. Western Union Telegraph Company, filed a similar application.

Bell was granted his patent on 7 March, before Gray. On 1. 0 March Bell reputedly spoke to his assistant Thomas Watson the first recognisable words ever transmitted by telephone, . This first articulate sentence was transmitted over 1. Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) exhibited Bell's telephone to the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Glasgow in September. He described it as . Later in the same year Bell's perfected type of telephone was exhibited at a meeting of the British Association in Plymouth. The early demand for the telephone had not been great and prior to forming their company Bell and his partners had struggled in their attempts to promote the new invention.

At one point they even offered to sell the Bell patents to the Western Union Telegraph Company - Elisha Gray's employers - for $1. At this time the telephone was not seen as a serious rival to the well- established telegraph and the offer was refused. However, following the formation of the Bell Telephone Company, Western Union realised that their telegraph machines were being replaced by Bell's telephones and promptly formed the American Speaking Telephone Company to compete with Bell. The new company employed Thomas A Edison, Elisha Gray and Amos F Dolbear, three leading electrical inventors.

These were the first long- distance calls in the UK. The company was registered on 1. June with a capital of . Its premises were at 3.

Coleman Street. Blake offered his transmitter to Bell who accepted it as a practical and reliable rival to Edison's transmitter which was superior to Bell's own. The Bell Companies throughout the world, including in Great Britain, went on to use the Blake transmitter in their telephones for 2. It was ultimately replaced by a transmitter originally patented in September 1.

Rev Henry Hunnings of Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, which used particles of carbon in loosely compacted form between two electrodes. The Hunnings transmitter was later developed by others to replace Blake's as the standard instrument of the Bell Companies. Western Union contended that it was Gray, not Bell, who had invented the telephone. However, because Bell had filed his patents before Gray, albeit only by hours, settlement was eventually made on 1. November 1. 87. 9 in favour of Bell, and gave the Bell Company all Edison's telephone rights. Following this court judgement, Western Union withdrew from the telephone business and Bell's company absorbed the American Speaking Telephone Company, reforming as the American Bell Telephone Company - Boston on 1. April 1. 88. 0. The company's first exchange officially opened on 6 September at 1.

Queen Victoria Street, London, with ten subscribers who used carbon transmitters and chalk receivers. By the end of the following February, when the company had another two exchanges in operation, it served 1. William Preece (later Sir William Preece) of the Post Office Engineering staff, when asked whether the telephone would be an instrument of the future which would be largely taken up by the public, replied . Questioned further he said .

Here we have a superabundance of messengers, errand boys, and things of that kind. Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd. The judgement laid down that a telephone was a telegraph, and that a telephone conversation was a telegram, within the meaning of Section 4 of the Telegraph Act, 1. Independent telephone companies were thereupon obliged to obtain 3. Postmaster- General, the Post Office taking 1. It was Post Office policy to issue licences for the few existing telephone systems, restricting these systems to areas in which they were operating, and to undertake the general development of the telephone itself. As a result of this court judgement the Postmaster- General was to continue providing the telephone service under the provisions of the various telegraph acts until the Telephone Act 1.

This Act was the first statutory recognition of the telephone separate from the telegraph, 7. It contained details of over 2. London exchanges.

Details of 1. 6 provincial exchanges were also given. By the time of the publication of their next directory in April, the company had seven London exchanges, 1.

The new company, now controlling Bell's and Edison's patents, reflected the situation in the United States. The first was Swansea, opened on 2. March, followed by Newcastle- upon- Tyne, Bradford and Middlesbrough. ABC telegraph instruments were replaced by telephones. The Provincial Telephone Company was floated in February with a capital of . Other companies were the Lancashire and Cheshire Telephonic Exchange Companies (capital . Monarch (No. 2) was the first cableship designed specifically for the Post Office and weighed 1,3.

It enabled a subscriber on a branch exchange to be connected to any other on the system by an operator situated at a central exchange, without manual attention at the branch exchange. Sinclair established a working six line automatic exchange at Coatbridge near Glasgow. Instead, telephone companies were to receive licences to work anywhere in the United Kingdom, and were thus enabled to create exchange areas of any extent and to connect them by trunk wires. The way was now clear for the development of a national system of trunk wires. This 'liberalisation' by the Postmaster- General also brought about the.

Telephone companies were now allowed to establish telephone stations which any member of the public could use. There were little more than 1. Postmaster- General's decision allowed access to the telephone to a whole new sector of society to whom the new technology was largely only a rumour. The new 'call offices' were soon advertised in the national and local press. They were at first located in 'silence cabinets' found in shops, railway stations and other public places. Seven companies now covered the whole of Great Britain.

Telegraph circuits were employed and the speakers stationed in Uxbridge and Liverpool. It was basically a small wooden hut where a three- minute call could be made for just 'tuppence' (a little under 1p). Not all early payphones had a coinbox built into them; some of the kiosks had a penny- in- the- slot mechanism on the door, while others had an attendant to collect the fee. The National Telephone Company actually produced subscribers' Trunk Pass Keys which were used to unlock call offices when members of the public wished to make a trunk call in the attendant's absence.

This increased the distance telephone signals could travel without fading and led to the successful development of long- distance telephone cables. He had discovered (so the story goes) that his local telephone operator was married to another undertaker to whom she diverted Strowger's calls.

Strowger's experiments involved the use of brass collar studs and matches, but the Strowger switching system proved extremely popular and in 1. UK. This electro- mechanical technology persisted for over seventy years from 1. The network of over 6,7. BT inherited on its privatisation in 1. Strowger based technology. These were gradually replaced by digital or modern electronic exchanges during a .