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A '''Timeline of the history of the [[telephone]]'''.

This page is a blatant [[WP:BLP]] violation, since it is comprised almost entirely of unreferenced negative information concerning living people. An administrator [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:User_At_Work/Pols_under_investigation&diff=next&oldid=143716461 improperly removed] a speedy deletion notice from this page, claiming that "all info is sourced in the respective articles". This claim is both clearly factually incorrect, since some of the articles are red links, and irrelevant, since links to Wikipedia articles cannot themselves be employed as sources for [[WP:BLP]] purposes. All negative or otherwise controversial information concerning living people appearing anywhere in Wikipedia ''must'' be accompanied by direct references to reliable sources which substantiate it. [[User:John254|John254]] 16:14, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

*'''Keep''' It is userspace. Userspace should be given slightly more freedom. If he wishes to express his opinion in his own userspace, who are we to stop him?--[[User:Sefringle|<span style="color:#CC7722 ">Sef</span><span style= "color: black;">rin</span><span style="color:#808000;">gle</span>]]^{<small>[[User talk:Sefringle|<span style="color:#4169E1">Talk</span>]]</small>} 16:58, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

==1849-1875==

**'''Comment''' -- [[Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Remove_unsourced_or_poorly_sourced_contentious_material]] expressly states that the prohibition on unreferenced and inadequately referenced negative information concerning living people '''applies to user pages:'''<blockquote>Editors should remove any contentious material about living persons that is unsourced, relies upon sources that do not meet standards specified in [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]], or is a conjectural interpretation of a source (see [[Wikipedia:No original research]]). Where the material is derogatory and unsourced or poorly sourced, the [[WP:3RR#Reverting potentially libelous material|three-revert rule does not apply]]. These principles apply to biographical material about living persons found anywhere in Wikipedia, '''including user and talk pages'''.</blockquote>

*1849 [[Antonio Meucci]] demonstrates a device later called a telephone to individuals in [[Havana]]. (It is disputed if this is an electric telephone.)

:[[User:John254|John254]] 17:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

*1854 [[Charles Bourseul]] publishes a description of a make-break telephone transmitter and receiver but does not construct a working instrument.

* '''Keep''' There is no inaccurate information on the page. I'm workshopping here. If people feel very strongly that it needs references (other than linking to the Wikipedia entries, which '''are''' referenced), I'll add them in. But again, there is no inacurate information. I'm not even trying to express any opinion here, just keep track of the mess of corrupt politicians. Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel that John254 is attacking my userpage because he disagrees with my edits of his contributions. --[[User:User At Work|User At Work]] 17:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

*1854 [[Antonio Meucci]] demonstrates an electric telephone in New York.

* '''Weak Delete''' While there are references, they're to Google search pages, leaving us to hunt around to make sure the sources are legitimate. Normally I'd be willing to take such chances, but not when living people are involved. If the references are changed to actual reliable sources, I might be willing to change to keep. [[User:Blueboy96|Blueboy]][[User talk:Blueboy96|96]] 19:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

*1860 [[Johann Philipp Reis]] demonstrates a make-break transmitter after the design of Bourseul.

**'''Comment''' -- Indeed. At the time I requested that this page be speedily deleted, there were no references at all. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AUser_At_Work%2FPols_under_investigation&diff=143716461&oldid=69818523] Only after the speedy deletion request was wrongfully declined [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:User_At_Work/Pols_under_investigation&diff=next&oldid=143716461], and I nominated the page for deletion [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:User_At_Work/Pols_under_investigation&diff=next&oldid=143744518], did [[User:User At Work|User At Work]] begin to add "references". Actually, he didn't add references, he added links to google searches for each of people named in his unsourced list of accusations, apparently without any attempt to ascertain whether the searches produced reliable sources as results. Following the link for "reference" 75, for instance, will lead right back to [[User:User At Work/Pols under investigation]] itself!. The article associated with "reference" 75 is a red link, so the argument that "the references are in the articles", as unconvincing as it would be if there were an article, is, in the absence of an article, utterly without merit. Adding these bogus "references" to [[User:User At Work/Pols under investigation]] to obstruct the deletion of unreferenced material is quite disruptive. [[User:John254|John254]] 21:41, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

*1860 [[Antonio Meucci]] demonstrates his telephone on [[Staten Island]].

::Please have some minor amount of good faith. For one thing, you know all the information there is true. I put those quicklinks up because I didn't have the time to put 100 links in today. I would welcome you replacing the forwards to the actual links, if you would like to contribute. Since it seems you would rather delete my work and threaten me with blocking, I will likely have to do that myself. Which I would be happy to do, since it's in my userspace, but I would hope that others would have the respect not to threaten my userspace with deletion. I am starting to be convinced you are interesting in being punitive towards me. --[[User:User At Work|User At Work]] 22:58, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

*1861 The German [[Philipp Reis]] manages transfer voice electrically over a distance of 340 feet, see [[Reis' telephone]].

:Please see [[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Abusive_sockpuppetry_by_The_Cunctator]]. [[User:John254|John254]] 01:24, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

*1871 Antonio Meucci files a patent [[caveat]] (a statement of intention to patent).

:Please see [[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Harassment_by_John254]]. [[User:User At Work|User At Work]] 06:30, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

*1872 [[Elisha Gray]] founds [[Western Electric]] Manufacturing Company.

*1872 Prof Vanderwyde demonstrated Reis's telephone in New York.

*July 1873 [[Thomas Edison]] notes variable resistance in carbon grains due to pressure, builds a rheostat based on the principle but abaondons it because of its sensitivity to vibration.

*1874 Gray demonstrates his liquid transmitter telephone at the [[Highland Park Presbiterian Church]].

*[[2 June]] [[1875]] Bell first transmits voice.

*[[1 July]] [[1875]] Bell first uses a bi-directional capable telephone (Both the transmitter and the receiver were identical membrane instruments.)

*1875 [[Thomas Edison]] experiments with [[acoustic telegraphy]] and in November builds an electro-dynamic receiver but does not exploit it.

==1876-1878==

*[[14 February]] [[1876]] Bell files his first patent on the telephone.

**Two hours later Elisha Gray files his patent application.

*[[16 May]] [[1876]] [[Thomas Edison]] files first patent application for [[acoustic telegraphy]].

*October [[1876]] [[Thomas Edison]] tests his first carbon [[microphone]].

*[[30 January]] [[1877]] Bell patents the electro-dynamic transmitter, receiver telephone

*[[4 March]] [[1877]] [[Emile Berliner]] invents the microphone.

*[[27 April]] [[1877]] [[Thomas Edison]] files first telephone patent application.

*January [[1878]] First North American telephone exchange opened in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].

*[[4 February]] [[1878]] [[Thomas Edison]] demonstrates telephone between Menlo Park, New York and Philadelphia, a distance of 210 km.

==1879-1919==

*1879 Bell merges with the [[New England Telephone Company]] to form the [[National Bell Telephone Company]].

*[[10 September]] [[1879]] Connolly and McTighe patent a "dial" telephone exchange (limited in the number of lines to the number of positions on the dial.).

*1880 National Bell merges with others to form the [[American Bell Telephone Company]].

* [[1882 ]] A telephone company --an [[American Bell]] affiliate-- is set up in [[Mexico City]].

*1885 American Telephone and Telegraph Company [[AT&T]] is formed.

*1886 [[Gilliland]]'s '''[[Automatic circuit changer]]''' is put into service between [[Worcester]] and [[Leicester]] allowing for the first [[Operator dialing]] allowing one operator to run two exchanges.

*[[13 January]] [[1887]] the Government of the United States moves to annul the patent issued to [[Alexander Graham Bell]] on the grounds of fraud and misrepresentation. Bell remanded for trial.

*1899 AT&T becomes the overall holding company for all the Bell companies.

*[[November 2]] [[1889]] [[A. G. Smith]] patents a telegraph switch which provides for [[Trunk (telecommunications)|trunks]] between groups of selectors allowing for the first time, fewer trunks than there are lines, and automatic selection of an idle trunk.

*[[10 March]] [[1891]] [[Almon Strowger]] patents the [[Strowger switch]] the first [[Automatic telephone exchange]].

*[[30 October]] [[1891]] The Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange company is formed.

*[[3 November]] [[1892]] The first [[Strowger switch]] goes into operation in [[LaPorte, Indiana]] with 75 subscribers and capacity for 99.

*[[27 February]] [[1901]] [[United States Court of Appeal]] declares void [[Emile Berliner]]'s patent of the Bell telephone system

*1915 Vacuum tubes used in coast-to-coast telephone circuits.

*1915 First trans-atlantic voice transmission

*1919 AT&T installs the first dial telephones in the Bell System, in [[Norfolk, Virginia]]. The last manual telephones in the system were not converted to dial until 1978.

==1927-2005==

*1927 First public trans-atlantic phone call (via radio)

*1935 First telephone call around the world.

*1941 [[Touch Tone]] dialing introduced for operators in [[Baltimore, Maryland]]

*[[1946]] National numbering plan ([[area code]]s)

*1946 First commercial [[mobile phone]] call

*1946 Bell Labs develops the [[germanium]] [[point contact transistor]]

*1951 [[Direct Distance Dialing]] (DDD) first offered at [[Englewood, New Jersey]], to 11 selected major cities across the United States; this service grew rapidly across major cities during the 1950s, but did not become widespread until the 1960s.

*1958 [[Modem]]s used for direct connection via voice phone lines

*1960 [[ESS-1]]

*[[1961]] [[Touch-tone]] released to public

*1962 [[T-1]] service in [[Skokie, Illinois]]

*[[1970]] [[ESS-2]] electronic switch.

*1970 Modular telephone cords and jacks introduced

*1975 Last manual telephone switchboard in [[Maine]] is retired

*1982 [[Caller ID]] patented by [[Carolyn Doughty]], [[Bell Labs]]

*1987 [[Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line|ADSL]] introduced

*1993 [[Telecom Relay Service]] available for the disabled

*1995 [[Caller ID]] implemented nationally

*2002 [[Antonio Meucci]] was recognised as the first inventor of the telephone by the [[United States House of Representatives]], in House Resolution 269, dated 11 June. The [[Parliament of Canada]] retaliated by passing a bill recognising Canadian immigrant Alexander Graham Bell as the only inventor of the telephone.

*2005 [[Mink, Louisiana]] gets phone service (Last in the USA)

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