The Telephone System


A Brief Overview


by Ryan Pryke, Hong Kaing, and Jung Lee




TELEPHONE:

"a device used for transmitting and receiving sound, especially speech, usually by means of wires"



The telephones now in general use are developments of the device invented by Alexander Graham Bell and patented by him in 1876 and 1877. A few of the different areas of the telephone system that we would like to go into are:




  • What is the telephone?

  • Who invented the telephone?

  • Cellular Telephones

  • What happens when making a call?