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Home > Victorian Science & Invention > Inventions > The Telephone
- The Telephone, by J. Munro
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878)
- Edison and His Inventions
(Scribners, 1879B)
- The electro-motograph (an early form of the telephone); the chemical telephone; signalling with the electro-motograph; the carbon button and the telephone; the articulating telephone; the carbon telephone; the carbon rheostat; the micro-tasimeter; using the tasimeter to detect icebergs; the pressure relay; the hygrometer; the odorometer.
- Edison's Electro-Motograph
(Scribner's, 1879B)
- A precursor to the telephone.
- The Telephone Exchange System, by J. Munro
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1880)
- How I Got My Telephone for Nothing: An Experience (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1885)
- The novelty here is what was considered a new and novel idea in 1885!
- The Working of the Telephone, by J. Munro
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1889)
- The Pleasure Telephone, by Arthur Mee (The Strand, 1898B)
- Imagine being able to receive news, entertainment, music, sports events, and sermons broadcast over a telephone! Oh, wait... (In reality, however, this was a Victorian prediction that would have to wait until the development of the wireless radio in the 20th century - and then for the cell phone of the 21st!)
- The Telephone of the Future, by G.A. Raper
(Windsor Magazine, 1900B)
- Some new experiments and developments in the technology of the telephone by M. Germain of Paris, including an extra-long receiver for use in large halls!
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