Greg Jenner

Gardner, Hubbard, myöskin. Ja Mabel on sydäntäinen. Ja luonnollakin, Belle syö hänet. Vähän ongelmallista matkustelua, ajattelen. Kyllä. Ei ole sellaista asiaa, jota voisimme tehdä. Kyllä, pahoillani, me olemme investoineet siinä. Tämä seriali, me olemme kasvaneet jotain rahaa. Hyvä sinä, olen yllättynyt.

He did wait if she was after 18, which on this show is actually good. Pretty rare. I mean, I know it's a low bar, but you know. It is. I mean, late teens always better than early teens. So he had a deaf mother, deaf wife. He's quite a complicated, controversial character in the deaf community today, because later on in life he argues against sign language. He's not a great hero, but we don't have time to talk about that so much, so I'll just sort of move on

Telegrafi on vanhempi ruotsalaiskirjailu, joka tarkoittaa kauhean kirjoittamista. Telefoni tarkoittaa kauhean ääniä. Onko se se uusi hieno kysymys Aleksanderin Gräinbäälle? Miten saa ääniä pitkällä kohdalla? Kyllä, mielestäni se on se. Ei ole todella hyvää tapahtumaa tehdä sitä.

Buzz. So you're not putting your phone in rice yet. Hello, hello, hello, anyone? I liked it. I'm trying. I liked it. Two other big inventors we should mention. Have you ever heard of Elisha Gray or Antonio Meucci?

They have to stand on glass stools. Oh, totally reasonable expectations. I mean, everybody has glass stools lying around after all. What level of simultaneousness is this occurring within the three of them? Oh, it's a good question. This is 1871, so this is... This is all pretty close. He's the first to file in America a patent that we might say is telephonic. Fair? Yes. But is it his patent or is it him going, just hang on!

Bell on saanut tukea vanhempiaan, joten hän on saanut rahoitusta. Hän on saanut rahoitusta. Mabelin isä on melko rikkoinen ja hän on saanut rahoitusta hänelle. Grey ei ole saanut sitä rahaa. Grey on onnistunut. Hän on saanut hänen omaa Western Telegraph-yhteisöä.

Man's best friend.

And a little helper. Charming. Yuan, we've obviously got two rival inventors filing a patent on the same day. The obvious question, and I think Catherine, apologies if this is unfair, but I think both of us are not really great on the engineering of how phones work. I accept that. You went tin cans and string and I went, yes. So Yuan, how do these early, very basic...

And will that do? That's the key to going on with modern science, I think. I believe you is a thing. So the legal battle literally went down to the wire. Gray didn't take that lightly. He filed legal actions. He tried to argue his case. But ultimately Bell was found to be the official winner. Whether he was the moral victor, Catherine, I'll leave up to you.

We do know that Alexander Graham Bell does make the very first official telephone call. He demonstrates this by calling his assistant. Oh, he doesn't call great. He'd be like, na-na-na-na-na. Is that what you would do? That's in my head what their vibe is. But okay, so he calls his assistant. He does, yes. Where is his assistant? Well, not that far away. The assistant is in the next room. Oh, very good. The first known telephone message is,

Mr. Watson, come here! I need you! I want you, isn't it? I want you. I feel that's quite heated rivalry erotica. It really is. I want you, I need you. Also, what's with Watsons always getting relegated to second? You always need a Mr. Watson as your assistant. I want you. I want you.

That is romantic. We finally got to yearning. Electromagnetic yearning at last. Yuan, given that Bell could easily have just shouted into the next room, it hasn't really proved that this technology is effective over distance. It's proved that it's effective over 10 meters. So were people initially bedazzled by this invention or were they a bit like, well, that's just a parlor trick?

So Bell goes campaigning. And he offers his patent to the Western Union Telegraph Company, a very powerful company that have a monopoly on the Telegraph. And he says to them, I will give you my technology for $100,000. And they say, no, there's no future in this.

Se on nyt tutustunut yritysten koulussa, ja se on yksi pahimmista päätöksistä yritysten tarinaa. Se on todellinen. Bell pitäisi mennä itsessään. Hän ei ole saanut suurista rahoja. Hänellä on vanhempi, Gardner Hubbard. He saivat Bell-telefonin.

As part of Bell's promo tour, he goes on tour. In fact, in 1877 he puts a ring on it. He marries Mabel. They go on honeymoon. And when she's told what the honeymoon is, he's like, a promotional tour of Britain, darling. And off they go to Britain. How would you feel if your partner married you and then immediately said, honeymoon actually is, we're off to an expo. Go and sell the products I make.

I think it features quite a lot in things like early Agatha Christie novels. I was going to say, it's a big thing in comedy movies in the 1930s, like scruple comedies. People sort of being on the wrong line to each other. The nosy neighbor is spending all of their time on the phone, literally listening on to... Curious neighbor, please, man, let's be respectful. So it's called the party line because you're sharing it with other parties, but for you it would be a party line because it's a party. It's a party, yes.

So Bell's patent gave him 17 years, but then that lapsed and then other businesses came in and started offering their own phone services. You suddenly got rival phone companies. You've got first mover advantage, but then obviously everyone else gets to sort of hop onto the system that's already there. And so you subscribe to a service and there's no such thing as bills. You pay however much it is for the service.

I love that! That's from the 1880s. They're the hello girls. Because they greet you and then they plug you in to whoever you want to talk to. And initially you just say, can you just put my friend Jim on? And they'd be like, sure. And then obviously after a while there's too many Jims and then they have to start asking you for actual details of the number. Do they start asking for a phone number or do they start asking for a house address? It's more a connection to a number, I suppose, isn't it? No.

Ja sitten joutuisit käsittelemään asiaa, jossa haluat tiettyä numeroa. Laita minua Lontoon 123. Ja puhelinjärjestelmä on todella mielenkiintoista. Se järjestelmää hyvin nopeasti Amerikassa. Sitä saa hyvin nopeasti Yhdysvalloissa. Se on todella popularisoitunut kaupungissa. Vuonna 1882 puhelinjärjestelmällä on 200 henkilöä Chikagossa, mikä on mahtavaa. Lontoon puhelinjärjestelmä on 3000 henkilöä.

It spreads much slower in the rural regions, much slower in the countryside. I think UK or England gets fairly early on, but Europe is quite slow to pick up the phone. But it's interesting that you still get these shared party lines, but you also get businesses putting phones into their banks, into hotels. People might use the phone, you might pop into a bank to use a phone. So they become quite important, the phone, quite early on. And by 1902 there were 81,000 payphones in the USA, which is a lot of payphones. How many? 81,000 payphones. Wow.