From the Telephone to Modern Computing | James Gleick

People always dreamed of being able to communicate across long distances, but there was no practical way to do that until the telegraph arrived.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of telephone, like, know, including: I wonder how the world would be different if Bell and his team had not been awarded the patent for the phone.

1. 01He, you know, picked up the two receivers with wire strung between them
2. 02And one of the pictures that sticks in my head from Philip Rice's experience was that he actually did build a working gadget
3. 03But very quickly, the telephone companies that sprung up and the one telephone company that bears his name did recognize that