Only one century ago it was impossible to communicate with people in other countries, let alone on the other side of the world and the only way to do it was by letter or message that took a long time to get there as they had to be carried by hand or horse. This has changed dramatically in the last one hundred years and probably the biggest change was the introduction of the telephone! This has now made it possible to contact anyone anywhere in the World within a maximum of two minutes. This has revolutionised how we communicate as a species and now people are in regular communication every day despite the fact that they live on opposite sides of the world to each other.
Ground-breaking technology
The very first telephone was invented in the 1870s but the inventor is disputed because there were many scientists working on the communication of sound waves through radiation, although most commonly the invention of the telephone is accredited to Alexander Graham Bell.
Telephones have now become vitally important to the running of the modern day world and without them many businesses and companies would fall apart. They are used to regularly that nobody can really remember a time without then (especially the teenagers and youth of today who live on the phone normally). They have become more and more popular as they have been made both easier to use and cheaper to afford. They have gone from being large awkward things with a turn dial that was hard to operate to digital screened small and sleek pieces of kit which stand meekly in the corner of every home and building.
Categories: Communication Technology