Communication - the rise of telephony

The telephone has a history that precedes Ericsson. Here we present the early development of the telegraph and telephone, and the rise of telephony. Ponder the unique pictures from pioneer times of telephony. Discover the telephone’s entrance to daily home life, the workplace and in literature.

Early developments

The triumph of the telegraph

Telegraphy for a new era

The telegraph – the Victorian Internet

Bell, Gray and the invention of the telephone

Success for Bell’s new company

Sweden’s first telephone company

How the telephone changed the world

The telephone in Strindberg’s time

Strindberg’s telephone tragedy

The telephone makes its debut in Sweden

“The telephone is the instrument of the devil”

When the telephone came to the office

The dream of the videophone

How mobile phones have changed our lives

Awaiting your call

Ericsson’s marketing

Spiders in the web

Early Telephone station

"The telephone is the instrument of the devil"

The telephone was first demonstrated in Stockholm in 1877. At first, phones were found in general stores, telegraph offices and drug stores.

Awaiting your call

Awaiting your call

Digitization makes it possible to take samples of the speech signal and to transmit the numerical values corresponding to the sound level.

Strindbergs telephone tragedy

Strindberg's telephone tragedy

The story in "Half a sheet of foolscrap," takes place within a few minutes during a day in Stockholm in the early 1900s.

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