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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. 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.

  5. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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    The combination of phone number lookups, along with Internet access, was offered by some service providers; VoIP (Voice over IP) was an additional feature. History The first telephone directory, printed in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, in November 1878. Telephone directories are a type of city directory. Books listing the inhabitants ...

  6. Telephone numbers in Spain - Wikipedia

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    Current numbering plan. On 1 December 1998, Spain changed to a new telephone numbering plan. [8] Under the closed numbering plan with the trunk prefix '9' being incorporated into the subscriber's number, so that a nine-digit number was used for all calls, e.g.: [9] 9xx xxx xxx (within Spain) +34 9xx xxx xxx (outside Spain)

  7. Telecommunications in Chile - Wikipedia

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    Telephone History. Telephone and telegraph services started in Chile in 1879, three years after Alexander Graham Bell, presented his patent for a telephonic system.José Dottin Husbands, an associate of Thomas Edison, arrived into the port of Valparaíso carrying the first set of switching equipment and telephones.

  8. Timeline of the introduction of television in countries ...

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    This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included. This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date.

  9. History of telecommunication - Wikipedia

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    History of telecommunication. A replica of one of Claude Chappe 's semaphore towers (optical telegraph) in Nalbach, Germany. The history of telecommunication began with the use of smoke signals and drums in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In the 1790s, the first fixed semaphore systems emerged in Europe. However, it was not until the 1830s that ...