Timeline
Technical History 1750-1950


Benjamin Franklin

Joseph Henry

Samuel Morse

Western Union

Gray & Barton

Western Electric

A.G. Bell and Elisha Gray

New Haven, Connecticut 

Alexander Graham Bell

Richmond, Virginia

Thomas Edison

Bell -vs- Gray
WU/WE GE  Graybar

NYC-Chicago LDX Call


Guglielmo Marconi

 

Pioneers

NYC-San Francisco-
Georgia-Wash.D.C.

Bell Labs


Battery

Door Bell

Morse Code Telegraph

Telegraph System

Electrical Supplies

WU purchases G&B

Telephone Patent 

First Telephone Exchange

Bell Telephone Company

Southern Bell Telephone

Light Bulb

A T&T
Bell System & Logo

Loading Coil
Stepper Switch

Radio

Triode Vacuum Tube

Organization

Coast to Coast LDX

Dial Tone

Transistor


~1750

~1830

~1835

~1856

~1869

~1872

~1876

~1877

~1878

~1879

~1880

~1885
~1889

~1892

~1897

~1907

~1910

~1915

~1940s

~1947