Great inventions! I need to know when...?

Question

... the telephone was invented and by whom?

and

... when were telephone bills introduced and why?

No thanks to the unhelpful answers - I'm organsisng a quiz night and I'd like som helpful answers only!

Answer 1

Alexander Graham Bell sort of :) seems to be a bit of debate on who actually invented it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bell

Sorry no idea on when bills came in but the telegram was out before the phone and you used to have to pay for that at the post office.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegrams

hope this helps with your quiz

Answer 2

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 3

Last time I checked it was Alexander Graham Bell. Why were telephone bills invented? Are you kidding me?! How do you think telephone companies or any company pay for equipment, employees and services.

Answer 4

Mr Bell invented the telephone!
Mr Alexander Graham Bell invented it in 1876.

Here is a useful article: -


http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/bell.html

Answer 5

first invented by Antonio Meucci in 1871 but didn't do well then in 1876 alexander graham bell invented a different type of phone patented it and sold loads and gave us the first telephones :)

from bbc news addy below

Answer 6

The telephone was invented by Bell's asistant, an Italian at origin, in the same year Bell took this man's work as his own. Sorry, can't remember the asistants name. :(

Answer 7

There is no such thing as an invention. It is a development of an idea which others have passed on. It is usually the one who puts it on the market who gets the credit

Answer 8

alexander graham bell. You figure out the rest.

Answer 9

Nerd :)