For us it's business as usual: we remove the phone, dialed a number and after a few seconds, we are already connected - with each other in Moscow or with the taxi at the next intersection. We exchange news, give or take instructions, come to the rescue, I agree and all this on the phone. A phone call is routine? Our ancestors thought about it quite differently. Wonderful toy, but useless, "the scientific world" almost pondered the invention of the teacher of Philip of Flight 26 Oct 1861 showed his telephone to the Physical society in Frankfurt. After many years of thinking and experimentation Flight was able to "Transmit the human voice with electronic flows at a distance." 13 years later Philip Reis died at the age of 40 from lung disease. Why did this happen? Why so little attention was paid to this discovery, which would have meant a revolution in the transmission of information, and why it was not applied?
Of course, the "phone" Flight was a lot of technical deficiencies; it also functioned not always reliable. Improvements are needed, but to use it as possible. Social reality in contemporary Germany, unlike England, France or North America, could not free himself from the bonds of feudal petty-bourgeois relations. For the industry that has developed and also for technologies and nature, there was a significant obstacles. It turned out that the invention of Flight entered into the world, first of all, thanks to the United States. Mass production and practical application of the novelties promised, above all, high profit. And distribution of world trade, the growing influence of the banks needed to improve the exchange of information and news. Classic mail delivery postal cars and ships became very slow, the Telegraph was much faster, and phone calls were also more comfortable.
And it is not surprising that continued development in the phone business. It was a great achievement of the American Professor Alexander Graham bell. March 10, 1876 he had his first telephone conversation with a member of team Watson. Prosaic words of this conversation are transmitted to descendants: Watson, come here. I need you.
The bell phone was a sensation at the Philadelphia world exhibition. Also in 1876 was held the first telephone conversation at a distance of two English miles, between Boston and Cambridge. Business world of USA and later in Europe were grateful for the opportunity to quickly and easily find the news and report them. At the same time, were predicted and a huge profit from the spread of the negotiating unit Bella.
The resourceful entrepreneur soon became a cohort of the richest people in the world. In Prussia, bell learned about the invention from an article in the American journal of American Science. Soon after, in 1897, they began to build a network in the Berlin-based unit of bell. After 4 years it went on. The number of subscribers has grown very rapidly. Someone will be surprised that the Berlin stock exchange in the first list of subscribers has reserved the connection of the first 9 numbers. More banks, Ministers, the press, artisans. Of course, this list is not enough workers. The number of subscribers increased and increased. At the same time, the phones were improved. The appearance has also changed.
