//file author: a uwcse143 student 10/26/2002
//Important dates in Development of electricity & telephone:  1627- 1876 at URL:
//www.privateline.com/telephoneHistory/HIstory!htm1
//"Telephone" comes from the Greek word tele, meaning from afar, and phone, meaning voice or voiced sound.
1627
Francis Bacon described a speaking tube in his book New Utopia, However, a phone could not be invevted until the electrical age began.
1729
English chemist, Stephen Gray transimitted electricity over wire.
1746
Dutchman, Pieter Van Musschenbroek and German, Ewald Georg Von Kleist independently develeloped the Leyden Jar, a sort of battery of condenser for storing staticelectricity.
1753
Charles Morrison, an anonymous writer, possibly physician, suggested in The Scots Magazine that electricity might transmit messages.
1800
Alesssandro Volta produced the first battery.
1820
Danish physicist Christian Oersted discovered electromagnetism, the critical idea needed to develop electrical power and to communicate.
1821
Michael Faraday discovered induction, and he built the worlds first electric generator. Mechanical energy could now be convered to electrical energy.
1854
Bourseul suggested transmitted speech electrically, and the electrical principles needed to build a telephone were known by then.
March 10, 1876
In Boston, Massachusettes, Alexander Graham Bell invevted the "telephone" (a crude device made of a wooden sand, a funnel, a cup of acid, and some copper wire).