Illustration of vintage rotary dial phone and early cell phone for the history of the telephone call blog.

The History of the Telephone Call

The history of the telephone is a long and circuitous one, full of twists and turns, fortunate accidents, and persistent inventors. It began back in 1876 with Alexander Graham Bell’s groundbreaking invention, based on previous work with acoustics and electricity. It quickly became clear that Bell’s invention had potential far beyond anything that had come…