The History of the Telephone

"I forgot my phone at home" today sounds like a verdict. Our entire lives are concentrated in smartphones. Calling a taxi, paying in a store, listening to our favorite music, reading the news, and of course, arranging meetings - all... this can be done with the press of a couple of buttons. It's hard to believe, but the phone was not always like this. Just twenty years ago, mobile phones could only be used for talking and exchanging short messages. Fifty years ago, the home (landline) phone was the only means of communication, but even it was not found in every apartment, and one had to run to a payphone in the next block. There was a time when people lived without a phone at all. How did they communicate with each other then? And who invented devices that transmit sound?
This book tells the history of communication devices from Ancient Rome to the present day. It poses many interesting questions for readers, allowing them to observe how science and technology developed in the dialogue between scholars from different countries and eras. Which inventions of the past form the basis of modern technology? How did dots and dashes help the telegraph? What is the purpose of carbon powder in a telephone receiver? What has changed thanks to radio? And how did we transition from analog to digital? Additionally, from "The History of the Telephone", you will learn about Napoleon's secret semaphore, radio on board the "Titanic", a cable at the bottom of the ocean, and hacking the telephone network with a whistle.
The edition is accompanied by expressive and vivid illustrations by artist Lisa Kazinskaya. Here you will find both intricately drawn devices and mechanisms, and portraits of inventors, as well as amusing genre scenes.