Discovering The Secrets Behind The Talk Phone

By Ann Schmidt


While Smartphones are somewhat new, walkie talkies have been around for quite some time. The application access and operations of smart phones might be new in comparison. However, talk phone technology has existed since the days of Alexander Graham Bell. As such, it is only the cellular, wireless and prepaid technologies which are new in these new so-called smart models.

In fact, the first of these models was known as the Simon Personal Communicator. IBM began research and development on this model in the late 1980s and created a working prototype. After which, the company started marketing the communicator to limited markets in 1992. As such, while Apple is considered the genius behind the Smart Phone craze, it was actually the IBM research and development team which created the initial technology behind this phenomenon.

The ideology behind the research was inspired by Alexander's deaf wife. Initially, the research was related to hearing devices rather than a communications device. As such, Mr. Bell considered the most famous discovery and design of a lifetime an intrusion into more scientific aspirations. Sadly, the scientist then refused to include this new design into ongoing research and development.

While the telephone is primarily Alexander Graham Bell's greatest accomplishment, the scientist also invented several other communication forms. These include, optical or visual communication, black box communication for aeronautics and hydrofoil systems. Although, it was not until much later in life that any of these other forms became valid modes of communication, or as popular as the scientist's initial invention.

The first experimentation with sound as encouraged by a loving father took place while the Bell children were quite young. For, it was this father who took two sons on the journey of a lifetime. When, in 1863, the three attended an exhibition which included a working "mechanical man." A model which included a simulated human voice that could talk to those attending the exhibit. After which, the two boys then created an Automaton in the garage of the family home, a project that would later lead to the first working telephone as a communications device.

Highly impressed and interested in the project, the boy's father offered to pay for all and expenses involved in the process. In addition, the project became more interesting to the boys after the father suggested a big prize when the process and project became successful. However, it was not until "Trouve, the family dog became involved that the project would see success.

For, one of Bell's most interesting experimental subjects was the family dog. Most likely considered animal abuse by today's standards, the scientist worked to create an ongoing growling pattern. At which time, Mr. Bell would attempt to move the dog's lips and adjust the vocal cords to produce a specific sound. One sound the scientist created sounded like the dog was asking "How are you grandma?"

The objective was to create a device over which sound waves could be transmitted in either direction. After which, there was more research and development into the design. For, a person on one end needed to speak into a microphone while the other needed to hear. As a result, the mouth and ear design on traditional telephones with a rotary dialing system became quite popular over the years.




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