{"id":440,"date":"2011-01-22T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=440"},"modified":"2023-07-07T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:33:42","slug":"1876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/22\/1876\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 16 &#8211; 1876: \u201cResearches in Telephony\u201d by Alexander Graham Bell, in: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Bosto<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/22\/1876\/1876_title-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-442 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1876_title1-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1876_title1-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1876_title1-581x1024.jpg 581w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1876_title1-768x1352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1876_title1-872x1536.jpg 872w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1876_title1-624x1099.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1876_title1.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a>n, 1876<\/p>\n<p>Although it lacks a visual punch, this article concerning Alexander Graham Bell\u2019s research on the telephone marks a pivotal moment in the history of technology. Presented without illustration, and comprising a mere ten pages within volume XII of the <em>Proc<\/em><em>eedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/em>, the article resided in MIT\u2019s open stacks until fairly recently.<\/p>\n<p>In it, Bell describes the first successful transmission of human speech via the telephone: \u201cI placed the membrane of the telephone near my mouth, and uttered the sentence, \u2018Do you understand what I say?\u2019 Presently an answer was returned \u2026 and I heard the sentence: \u2018Yes; I understand you perfectly.\u2019\u201d \u00a0Bell conducted his work, and presented his findings in Boston. He received the first U.S. patent for the telephone in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>In May 1876 \u2013 the same month in which Bell presented this paper to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences \u2013 he also spoke to MIT\u2019s Society of Arts at their monthly meeting. The Society\u2019s handwritten minutes, held by MIT\u2019s Institute Archives and Special Collections, describe the talk: \u201cMay 25th 1876 \u2026 Prof. A. Graham Bell read a paper, illustrated by several experiments, on \u2018telephony,\u2019 or the telegraphing of musical sounds \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article is listed in Bern Dibner\u2019s <em>Heralds of Science<\/em> as one of the 200 most important publishing events in the history of science and technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/jp08pj\/alma990002977690106761\">Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Boston, 1876 Although it lacks a visual punch, this article concerning Alexander Graham Bell\u2019s research on the telephone marks a pivotal moment in the history of technology. Presented without illustration, and comprising a mere ten pages within volume XII of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the article resided in MIT\u2019s open stacks until fairly recently. In it, Bell describes the first successful transmission of human speech via the telephone: \u201cI placed the membrane of the telephone near my mouth, and uttered the sentence, \u2018Do you understand what I say?\u2019 Presently an answer was returned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4202,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}