Cute Young Red Haired Girl With Blue Eyes And Old Phone

Early development
• 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