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1 History of Telecommunications. Chapter Objectives. Summarize the history of telecommunications, from ancient signaling methods like smoke signals and drum beating to modern-day technologies. Describe the invention of the telegraph and the key contributors to the development of the technology.
Jul 31, 2003 · The telecommunications industry was born. Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call in 1876. Less than 20 years later, Gugliemo Marconi invented the “wireless telegraph,” or what came to be known as radio. Within a century, Western Union, the old telegraph company, launched America’s first domestic communications satellite into space.
telecommunication, Communication between parties at a distance from one another. Modern telecommunication systems—capable of transmitting telephone, fax, data, radio, or television signals—can transmit large volumes of information over long distances.
