Most people pick u their telelophone and call their friends or family members,upload and download files on the internet,create a networks to effficiently utilize resources and other forms of data comunation on a daily basis but they fail to appreciate telecommuncation.This is because they are ignorant of the history and principles of telecommunication.
The invention of the telephone which later transformed in telecommunication took several decades of dedicated scientist to invent.Scientist like Sir Charles Wheatstone, Sir Williams Cooke, Claude Chappe, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham bells just a few to mention of.
One major controversy in the late 19th century was determining the patent right of the Telephone.Two great scientist Graham Bell & Elisha Gray both submitted the patent for the Telephone on the same day but Graham Bell submitted his patent 2 hours earlier before Elisha Gray.There were lot of law suite and court cases but Alexander Graham Bell's name was firmly etch on the historical time line has inventor of Telephone
After Gray's death in 1901 a note was dicovered in his laboratory.It stated :"The history of the Telephone will never be full written ......................It is partly hiden ..................and partly lying on the Earth and conscience of a few whose lips are sealed, some indeath and others by golden clasp whose grip is even tighter".
Other scientist now developed on the principles of Graham's telephone to invent what we now call Data Communication