The Telephone - How It Works

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Have you ever wondered how your voice can travel thousands of kilometres, instantaneously? The transmission of speech long predates Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone of 1876, as makeshift instruments such as pipes or cones were used to project a voice over greater distance. But the telephone as we know it was a more ambitious device; it sought connection across towns, continents and oceans.
The Telephone - How It Works, General Post Office, National Communications Museum collection 8817.

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  • @dratelectasis
    @dratelectasis2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing how these old videos explain things so much clearer

  • @I-Libertine

    @I-Libertine

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes! This is the phone. You pick it up and talk into it.

  • @brycef7130

    @brycef7130

    11 ай бұрын

    Ya I just got done watching some 9 year olds talk threw a tin can lol wish they did a little better but it worked

  • @foreignerJas_Gaming

    @foreignerJas_Gaming

    10 ай бұрын

    Cuz ppl that time could mess with social medias less

  • @LordBeezleDwarf

    @LordBeezleDwarf

    9 ай бұрын

    They werent trying to over complicate their explanations in an attempt to try and make u feel ull never understand

  • @thepsychedelicaxolotle5020

    @thepsychedelicaxolotle5020

    8 ай бұрын

    Don't underestimate your elders

  • @melaniec1074
    @melaniec10748 ай бұрын

    As old as this film is, it still explained the dynamics of the basic phone system quite well. It's actually the first one I have found to explain it in a way I can understand.

  • @fl04
    @fl042 жыл бұрын

    You'd think we've evolved since the 60s and yet videos advertising clear explanations on youtube is just annoying stock music and someone who doesn't really know what he's talking about. this is just amazing

  • @BetterB502
    @BetterB5022 жыл бұрын

    Tho he’s explaining everything so clearly, so much more understanding than it would ever be explained now I still don’t understand how it’s possible for our voices travel in real time through wires and/or “the air”.

  • @barbezph

    @barbezph

    Жыл бұрын

    Just using Alternating Current. alternating currents and magnets are real friends! They work together in order to make things work. Just think at an electromagnet, when you power it up it turns and gets on, make this many times in a second and you created a movement from a signal. Then as explained in the video, you can transform this signal into voice just with a diaphram! Or a bell ecc

  • @raimeyewens7518

    @raimeyewens7518

    Жыл бұрын

    I asked my husband this last night. Even with the old phone we had in the 80’s I don’t understand it. How did my voice travel through wires across the states while many others were on it also? Or when he was in another country several years ago. How did my voice travel through my cell phone to him? I guess I’m just slow minded lol. 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @sam-001

    @sam-001

    Жыл бұрын

    This is god gifted , scientists had got this properties by experimenting again and again. First time i had also can't believe😊😮

  • @johnf817

    @johnf817

    5 ай бұрын

    Literally everything is electromagnetic energy/waves. The same way we see a red square, for example. because the electromagnetic waves bounce off of it in the exact pattern into our eyes in order to display a red square. Voice and radio waves go into our ears at the exact frequency/pattern to create what we hear. God gave us the electromagnetic spectrum and it is the basis for almost everything.

  • @hyperbitcoinizationpod

    @hyperbitcoinizationpod

    Ай бұрын

    surf's up, dude

  • @kfl611
    @kfl611 Жыл бұрын

    This was well presented. I thought it was older than 1962. I got a flash back, when the film started, it reminded me of watching films at school and you heard that scrachy sound before the sound of the film started. It's been many decades since I have heard that.

  • @LauraoAirylea

    @LauraoAirylea

    Жыл бұрын

    It's the sound of the needle hitting the vinyl record and audio gaps before speech of his voice is captured during recording. It's amazing how much of our world was analog before digitization took over. It's incredible that the majority of humans (myself included) have no idea how the technologies around us function.

  • @narvin3
    @narvin3Ай бұрын

    back when modern was not old

  • @AnkurProductionFilm
    @AnkurProductionFilm Жыл бұрын

    This video helps to understand the old technology of telephone.

  • @JaredPaxton
    @JaredPaxton Жыл бұрын

    I love learning things like this. Very neat!

  • @sooryanarayanan4273
    @sooryanarayanan42732 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this gem,

  • @harjitsingh-jn1vu
    @harjitsingh-jn1vu2 жыл бұрын

    I am delighted that I found this very informative video, might use it for project.

  • @febrimarpa
    @febrimarpa2 жыл бұрын

    Very informative, thank you very much

  • @ikartikthakur
    @ikartikthakur Жыл бұрын

    This old video is 10x preciser than collage professors today

  • @quackuza

    @quackuza

    Жыл бұрын

    Looks like your English professor wasn't too great n' all 🤣

  • @ikartikthakur

    @ikartikthakur

    Жыл бұрын

    @@quackuza English is very funny language today you learn from me ..

  • @dkm4567

    @dkm4567

    Жыл бұрын

    @@quackuza lol you typed that like a hillbilly you are one to talk 😂

  • @xr6lad

    @xr6lad

    Ай бұрын

    @@quackuzaSays the person that uses ‘n’ instead of the correct ‘and’. And doesn’t end his sentence with any punctuation (no full stop). Hilarious.

  • @quackuza

    @quackuza

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@xr6lad Unc, this was a year ago, bit late..

  • @kono9460
    @kono94607 ай бұрын

    So much better than attempting to understand the wikipedia article

  • @geniusguycannotlie6620
    @geniusguycannotlie6620 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @DanielSilva-ml5zs
    @DanielSilva-ml5zs2 жыл бұрын

    Great explanation. 👏🏽

  • @mtnfreestyle1899
    @mtnfreestyle18996 ай бұрын

    Crazy it doesn't have more views

  • @tct-14isharabihan91
    @tct-14isharabihan91 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much❤

  • @SupremeST25
    @SupremeST25Ай бұрын

    Ingenious!

  • @ranjeetmore6913
    @ranjeetmore69132 жыл бұрын

    Very nice video sir, and thank you so much

  • @MaZEEZaM
    @MaZEEZaM Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting, thank you.

  • @madhavyadav5905
    @madhavyadav5905 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing explanation!

  • @john_smith1471
    @john_smith1471 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting to see a then very modern 1962 telephone but on a manual exchange, so no dial service.

  • @AlessandroZir
    @AlessandroZir Жыл бұрын

    amazing!! 🤸🤸🤸🤸💥🙏🙌❤️

  • @kd1s
    @kd1s11 ай бұрын

    Switching theory is fascinating.

  • @eagle-s4807
    @eagle-s48078 ай бұрын

    Very best best best best best ......

  • @HarshaVardhan-xx6ii
    @HarshaVardhan-xx6ii2 жыл бұрын

    should have had something like this when I was in school

  • @zb1423
    @zb14232 ай бұрын

    Wow, never thought it was possible to explain a complex concept so simply without ever uttering the words "like" or "subscribe". They did discuss ringin the bell tho. But if Meat loaf taught me anything, 2 outta 3 ain't bad.

  • @alexjohnson1411
    @alexjohnson1411 Жыл бұрын

    Beauty in vintage

  • @StealthFB22
    @StealthFB228 ай бұрын

    Imagine how the people that made this informative video would think if they got to see the first wireless landline, first cell phone and first smartphone 😂😂

  • @AYVYN

    @AYVYN

    6 ай бұрын

    Headphones still use Armature drivers

  • @apurvadange8423
    @apurvadange84235 ай бұрын

    watching this in 2024

  • @dharmvijaysingh1596
    @dharmvijaysingh15966 ай бұрын

    Amazing, I was searching this from very long time.

  • @garyj.2424
    @garyj.242411 ай бұрын

    Amazing, right now everything is controlled by a computer and I just found out that everything was really and totally manual and it's need a human controls. But definitely we started in a simple and basic before, until we become complete

  • @thebancfamily8645
    @thebancfamily86456 ай бұрын

    Wow

  • @ds99
    @ds998 ай бұрын

    Brilliant video explaining sound waves and what was done to improve them using electricity. One thing I don’t understand is regarding the bell. If the bell is always connected to the line even when the line is not in use, wouldn’t it be consuming and wasting a lot of electricity? How does hanging up signal that the connection has been ended if the bell is still connected to the line? Wouldn’t that cause the system to think a connection is still there? Especially where this is all done over 2 wires? The same two wires used for bell ringing and speech.

  • @andrewhogan6628

    @andrewhogan6628

    Ай бұрын

    Because the bell would only ring if you put DC current through the line. You can have a "connected" (closed) line (circuit) but not inject any current.

  • @user-ui9zn4gu6e
    @user-ui9zn4gu6e5 ай бұрын

    why don't we just use the force of the sound waves to change the lenth of the wire so it will make different resistance depending on what we say.

  • @zoidelux
    @zoidelux Жыл бұрын

    I am confused about the “DC transformer”. I thought transforming DC power is impossible? Im guessing theres more to this transformer than wire coils?

  • @Amine-gz7gq

    @Amine-gz7gq

    Жыл бұрын

    your voice will vary the resistance of the microphone, creating an alternating current.

  • @QueeeeenZ
    @QueeeeenZ2 жыл бұрын

    from what year is this movie?

  • @QueeeeenZ

    @QueeeeenZ

    2 жыл бұрын

    oh it's 1962

  • @gameyord7182

    @gameyord7182

    2 жыл бұрын

    I would say arroumd 1900

  • @BetterB502

    @BetterB502

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gameyord7182 lol 1900? They didn’t even have this type of technology to record videos.

  • @BetterB502

    @BetterB502

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you watch til the end it says 1962

  • @niczano
    @niczano8 ай бұрын

    Meucci is the inventor of the telephone, not Bell, as the US Congress also recognized.

  • @freshgino
    @freshgino Жыл бұрын

    What’s the year this was produced? You should put in the title!

  • @thomaspaine7098

    @thomaspaine7098

    Жыл бұрын

    Late 40s early 50s based off the phone in the beginning

  • @dandyhighwayman

    @dandyhighwayman

    10 ай бұрын

    1962 based off the large text in the credits saying, "1962"

  • @somnathsaha7391
    @somnathsaha73912 жыл бұрын

    ,🙂

  • @nityking1
    @nityking1 Жыл бұрын

    Antonio Meucci

  • @magicue
    @magicue8 ай бұрын

    #11##1

  • @tertia0011
    @tertia00112 жыл бұрын

    I had opportunity to see ancient 'step by step' switched telephone exchange in operation before its decommission. Lots of clicking & whirring, unlike modern digital exchanges which are exceptionally dull & boring by comparison. Man & dog exchange - dog prevents man from meddling with exchange equipment. Man is there only to feed the dog.

  • @RFTFunkerAC
    @RFTFunkerAC Жыл бұрын

    Bell wasn't the inventor of the telephone 🙈🤦🏻‍♂️

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