Review of the New York Times' 1886 Telephone Review

With the limited amount of technology that their civilization provided, telecommunication was difficult at first. Born in Britain, Alexander Graham Bell, had a tedious time on making such a world-changing invention. Suggestions were made so that he may come up with a hypothesis to test if the idea is possible for the use of civilization.

Charles Bourseul, a French scientist and a pioneer of Bell, suggested interaction between electrical circuits and sound waves. Not only he has made such a scientific statement, but he also suggested to use the famous electromagnetic telegraph as a primary basis. It was impossible for the transmission of speech to exist when a prototype of the idea was created. Philip Reis heard the idea of Bourseul and attempted to come up with a certain instrument that can handle the transmission of speech across electrical lines.

The hard labor of the inventors led to a brand new meaning of telecommunication.

Two instruments were created after years of experimenting: The Blake Transmitter, created by Francis Blake, and The Bell Receiver, created by Bell himself. Blakes creation was then bought by Bell’s company. As said in Bell’s application, these are the two important machines that will bring forth a new age of telecommunication.

Before Bell was able to sign his patent, another professor by the name of Elisha Gray applied for a patent for his creation of a similar prototype of the telephone. Sadly, Gray’s patent wasn’t signed all because he wasn’t the first to come in the Patent Office, therefore it was signed to Bell instead. While the reputation of the American Bell Telephone Company is going smooth, another company, known as the Western Union Telegraph Company, set forth to show their own ideas of telecommunication across America. Thomas Edison initiated an experiment which resulted to the Edison Carbon Transmitter, another working telephone prototype. The two companies went on competing each other until it has become what was...