Telephone Wireless Images
Telephone Wireless Images
telephone wireless images
There is little doubt that Alexander Graham Bell, the man generally recognized as the inventor of the telephone, had in mind to at least some extent the impact his invention would have. Nevertheless, it is almost impossible to believe that what he patented as an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically” has anything to do with telephone and telecommunications technology today.
The telephone has been and remains one of the primary ways in which we communicate with each other. Allowing us to speak in “real time,” it facilitates a back-and-forth, immediate response connection impossible in written communications, ranging from snail mail to e-mail. The telephone makes possible the closest thing to live and personal communication.
Today’s technology, however, has taken the telephone to an entirely new level. We have moved far beyond the originally patented telephone of 1876, largely surpassing pulse dialing, long cords, and even car phones. The phone today is an entirely new beast with very new and different things to offer.
Its primary use, of course, remains that of vocal communications. It allows us to speak to those at great distances, making both national and international connections. What is new about current telephone technology, however, is not the places to which we can speak, but the places from which we can speak. Cell phones render us in constant contact – we can always be located and found. We can talk in our cars, on the street, and soon probably even on subways and in airplanes.
But cell phones bring with them more than the ability to talk from anywhere. Other technologies and additions to telephones have even further improved and increased the utility of the telephone.
Take, for example, text messaging. One of the simpler developments in telephone and, more specifically, the cell phone, it was one of the first steps in the crossing of the worlds of the computer and the phone. Much like online chatting, text messaging allows us to converse or send quick notes without ever really saying a word. It facilitates us keeping in contact without drawing attention with noise – a silent and efficient way of transmitting messages.
Today, the telephone has gone far beyond conversation and even texting – the cell phone has crossed paths with the Internet. The smart phone, combined with 3G and 4G technology as well as wireless Internet and WiMax, has rendered the telephone an entirely different beast. It no longer facilitates only conversation – it also serves as a music player, a search engine and even a GPS system. The smart phone creates a form of connectedness before largely unknown.
It is doubtful that Mr. Graham Bell had any of these developments in mind when he patented his voice-transmitting device. Nevertheless, he would no doubt be proud to know how far his little project has come and what it has done to the way in which we relate to one another and to the world.
By Jason Tandle
Article Source: ezinearticles.com
