The patent was granted on this day – 7 th March – in 1876 and the invention was described in the patent as “the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically” which essentially sounds very much like the services we make a business out of today!īell made the first phone call just three days later on March 10 th 1876 with a call to his partner, Thomas Watson, via a liquid transmitter. The ancestor of the amazing telephony solutions that we see today started in 1871 with Bell’s invention of the harmonic telegraph which he worked on for many years before it reached a refined stage in 1874. With the invention of the telephone and first phone call by the pioneering inventor Alexander Graham Bell, 147 years ago!Ī few years after his groundbreaking invention was patented, Bell was quoted with the statement, “It is possible to connect every man’s house, office or factory with a central station, so as to give him direct communication with his neighbors” which was a visionary idea when at the time communications had been limited to what you could say in person, or deliver in written form.

In a world where technology is constantly changing we had to mark the anniversary of where, for our sector, it all started.

Telephone inventor