INTRODUCTION TIMELINE LINKS HISTORY

History of the Telephone part 1 An Early History of the Telephone 1664-1866 A Look at the 19th Century The Groundwork, The Instrument Makers Robert Hooke's Communication Systems and Musical Instruments Robert Hooke's Acoustic Experiments and Acoustic Inventions History of the Telephone part 2 Hooke's Connection to Oersted, Wheatstone, Faraday, and Chladni Robert Hooke’s Telegraph System Alessandro Volta and Other Early Telegraphs R. T. H. Laennec's Stethoscope A Sidenote on Electromagnetism History of the Telephone part 3 The Education of Michael Faraday Sir Charles Wheatstone, the First Avant-Garde Musician Wheatstone Visually Explains "Chladni Figures" Joseph Henry, Inventor of the American Telegraph Faraday's Visions of Electro-Magnetic Fields History of the Telephone part 4 C.G. Page Creates Galvanic Music De La Rive, Gassiot, and Marrian and the "Magnetic Tick" Telegraphic Experiments Everywhere 1837, Year of the Telegraph Patent William Fothergill Cooke Wheeling and Dealing in England History of the Telephone part 5 First Commercial Telegraph Building on Wheatstone's Work The Year of Revolutions History of the Telephone part 6 Edison, Bell, and Infant Mortality The First Transatlantic Cable 1851 1854 Who Was Where in the Global Village of 1855? History of the Telephone part 7 1857, The Bonn Lecture of Herman Von Helmholtz Helmholtz’s Instrument History of the Telephone part 8 Philip Reis, Inventor of the Telephone Exhibition of the Telephone to the Naturalists' Association of Germany History of the Telephone part 9 Reis's Work, Lost in Translation History of the Telephone part 10 First Facsimile Machine The International Telegraph Union Stephen Mitchell Yeates Perfects Reis's Invention The Secret of Joseph Henry bibliograpy