telecommunications industry, which consists of the telephone, computer, and cable TV industries, has its roots in the telephone industry.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1875. Bell was a speech teacher who studied electricity as a hobby and wanted to develop a harmonic telegraph so that two or more telegraphic messages could be sent over a single wire simultaneously. By chance, the essential principles of the telephone were discovered.
The telephone earned praise when it was first demonstrated…
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