who invented the phone and when?
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Alexander Graham Bell, in 1876.
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tierrecarter, Bill Gates didn't invent the PC. IBM invented the PC, but got its OS from Microsoft (who didn't write it, they bought it from another firm, who didn't "invent" it either, as it was a clone of Digital Research's CP/M).\n\nSince Charles Babbage has already been mentioned, I'd like to drop a word in for Alan Turing, whose theroies are essential for modern computing, or Tommy Flowers, who used Turing's theories to produce Colossus, the first digital, programmable, electronic computer.
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Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung. There is more than one company who makes the phones.
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His name was Alessandro Volta.  Alessandro Volta discovered the first practical method of generating electricity.  In 1800, he arranged zinc and copper discs in a column and invented the battery.  His most famous invention was the voltic pile. \n\nThese links should give you all the good stuff!
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Milatary radios were probably first with that. In the year 2006 every cell phone company in the world will have it.
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Edison was an inventor or maybe an engineer but NOT a scientist. \n\nHe lived in New Jersey. He built one of the first modern research labs, with specialists from many different fields. With his team, he pioneered movies, and improved the telephone. He invented the grammophone. He lead the development of the lightbulbs we use today. \n\nThere is a huge amount of information about him on the web. Look him up.
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Although Alexander Bell is credited, he is the first one to patent it.  Antonio Meucci is probably the one who should take the credit for the invention.\n\nThe following is a brief summary of the history of the invention of the telephone:\n\n1849 Antonio Meucci, an Italian living in Havana, demonstrates a device later called a telephone. (The demonstration involves direct electrical connections to people.) \n1854 Charles Bourseul publishes a description of a make-break telephone transmitter and receiver but does not construct a working instrument. \n1854 Meucci demonstrates an electric telephone in New York. [1] \n1860 Johann Philipp Reis demonstrates a make-break transmitter after the design of Bourseul. \n1860 Meucci supposedly demonstrates his telephone on Staten Island. \n1861 Reis manages to transfer voice electrically over a distance of 340 feet, see Reis' telephone. \n1871 Meucci files a patent caveat (a statement of intention to patent). \n1872 Elisha Gray founds Western Electric Manufacturing Company. \nJuly 1873 Thomas Alva Edison notes variable resistance in carbon grains due to pressure, but shelves the discovery. \n1874 Gray demonstrates his liquid transmitter telephone at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church. \n2 June 1875 Alexander Graham Bell first transmits voice. \n1 July 1875 Bell first uses a bi-directional capable telephone (Both the transmitter and the receiver were identical membrane instruments.) \n14 February 1876 Bell files his first patent on the telephone. \nTwo hours later Gray files his patent caveat. \n30 January 1877 Bell patents the electro-dynamic transmitter, receiver telephone.
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I don't know. Could you mean SJ Phone?
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invented by Thomas Edison in 1879\n\nheres 833,000 sources
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There is a marvelous new invention called a "telephone".  You could use it to call your friend and ask him or her.
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who invented computer
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i think 1300050785 peoples use mobile phone in all over the world
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Lewis Waterman in 1884\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100897.htm
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Tip-Ring.\nLand phone, still used today.
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Hi there:\n\nThe cell phone keyboard with the typical ABC\nis, as one answerer stated, a clone of the Alexander Graham Bell    configuration put out by Bell Laboratories, many years ago.\nAs someone stated, this crude way of using the numbers to\nget " words" was a memonic aid, so that "ASH 277" would be easier to remember, than all numbers. Since there were only a few phones, by grouping 3 or 4 numbers into a word, meant you only had to remember the last few digits, so " ROCK " would be the first area code for 999 phone numbers, and you just had to remember the last three digits.\n ( more Bell Labs trivia - did you know that the # sign is an octothorpe? This is out of a 1967 RED BOOK handbook for Bell Linemen... since then the name has been lost, and no one knows what it is called anymore, not even computer reference guides....   -- and, Alexander Bell wanted a word to sign in on a phone call CLEARLY, and searched around the world for a sound that was easy to recognize - the best he could find was the call for fishermen in foggy weather, who yelled AH - Looo, which reverberated like a fog horn and helped to prevent two sailing ships from hitting each other - He modified it a bit and invented the word " hello ", which never existed in the English language until he had all his operators use it... )\n  \n As for the QWERTY layout of the keyboard, here is a previous answer that I gave... your question is asked repeatedly on the ANSWER forum...\n\n__________________________________\n\nEarly typewriters were mechanically crude and the swing arms that\nhad the letters on the end moved 6 inches or more from a circle around\nthe center of the page. If two arms reached the same strike slot,\nthey jammed together, often bending the thin swing arms.\n\nA group of Engineers was given a typewriter by Remmington in New York, to design a jam- proof machine. Instead, the Engineers looked at a data base of the most used and least used\nletters of the English alphabet.\nThey put the most used letters on the LEFT hand, since most people are right  handed, and the most used letters on the weakest, least used fingers - note that  the letter "A" is on the baby finger on the left hand. The baby finger on the left hand was designated the weakest, most difficult to use finger, while the letter A is always abound across almost all amounts of actual typing.\nThe ploy worked, and typists who were using the common keyboard of the day, with all the letters in alphabetical order, slowed to an absoute crawl.\nRepairs of jammed keys stopped immediately.\nDVORAK was designed to improve typing, and " reportedly " quadruples the words per minute.\nRAND in England designed a keyboard with two bowls shaped to\nfit the human hand natural swing movements, so that the typist\ndoes not "reach" for top row keys and left and right keys, but\nmoves only the fingers, and unlike the old typewriters, which had\nkeys that would have to be pressed down against huge springs,\nabout one to two INCHES, the RAND keyboard had touch-screen like keys, that have no visible movement at all. The words per minute reach 2000, easily, by anyone with a bit of practice.\nToday, on a typical computer, programmers and general public are considered " good " if they can do 30 or 60 words per minute.\nSecretaries start at 120 words per minute.\nMost of the computer people I know still use two fingers, including\nsome of the fastest and best programmers, following the GIGO rule.\n(( Computers use a stack of memory, which programmers fill and recall with numbers, using either FIFO or FILO, First In, First OUT, or First in, Last Out. All early calculators like the HP65 I use, with RPN ( Reverse Polish Notiation) use FILO ). GIGO is a parody of this terminology, with Garbage In = Garbage Out. ie. Typing in huge amounts of poorly written and poorly tested program code, is not as fast as typing in well written, well tested
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Ray Thomlinson of BBN.\n\nHe created e-mail in 1971 as one of the first distributed applications to run on ARPANET, the origial precursor to the Internet.\n\nASIDE TO DEARDEB:\nI'm sure Mr. Gore appreciates you straightening that out for us all, since he never claimed to have invented anything.
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Yes. Nikola Tesla actually invented the radio, but Marconi took (and still gets) credit for it.