Cute Young Red Haired Girl With Blue Eyes And Old Phone

• 1844 — Innocenzo Manzetti first mooted the idea of a “speaking telegraph” (telephone).
• 26 August 1854 — Charles Bourseul published an article in a magazine L'Illustration (Paris) : "Transmission électrique de la parole" (electric transmission of speech).
• 26 October 1861 — Johann Philipp Reis (1834–1874) publicly demonstrated the Reis telephone before the Physical Society of Frankfurt
• 22 August 1865, La Feuille d'Aoste reported “It is rumored that English technicians to whom Mr. Manzetti illustrated his method for transmitting spoken words on the telegraph wire intend to apply said invention in England on several private telegraph lines.”