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  2. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone ...

  3. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

  4. Al Gross (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross ( / ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone. [3]

  5. History of telephone service in Catalonia - Wikipedia

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    On 3 February 1924, the first automatic telephone exchange in Spain is inaugurated in Balaguer. On 19 April 1924, The Spanish National Telephone Company is constituted and in 1925, the Commonwealth's telephone network becomes part of the Spanish National Telephone Company. Telephone service is instituted between Spain and the United States in 1928.

  6. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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    Telephone directory. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a ...

  7. Murder of Asunta Basterra - Wikipedia

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    At nine months old she was adopted by Alfonso Basterra Camporro (born 1964) and María del Rosario Porto Ortega (1969–2020), an affluent Spanish couple from Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. Asunta was the first Chinese child to be adopted in the city of Santiago and one of the first in all of Galicia.

  8. José Melis - Wikipedia

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    One of his routines on Paar's shows was the "telephone game," in which Melis would improvise a musical number based on the last four digits of an audience member's telephone number. Melis also appeared on other TV shows, including Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town, and he portrayed himself in the musical comedy film Senior Prom (1958).

  9. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    1931: The Ericsson DBH 1001 telephone was the first telephone without a separate ringer box. 25 April 1935: First telephone call around the world by wire and radio. 1937: The Western Electric type 302 telephone becomes available for service in the United States. 8 December 1937: Opening of fourth transcontinental telephone line.