telephone
telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation
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Summary
telephone is a type of physical object[1]. telephone draws 18,857 Wikipedia views per month (type of physical object category, ranking #7 of 6).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Johann Philipp Reis[3], Elisha Gray[4], Alexander Graham Bell[5], Antonio Meucci[6]
- Instance of: product type[7], type of device[8]
- Subclass of: consumer electronics[9], electrical appliance[10], home appliance[11], product[12], telecommunications device[13], means of communication[14]
- Has use: dialogue[15]
- Commons category: Telephones[16]
- Unicode character: ℡[17], ☎[18], ✆[19], 📞[20], ☏[21], ☎️[22]
- Country of origin: United States[23]
- Has part(s): process engineering device[24], telecommunications network[25]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1876[26]
- Topic's main category: Category:Telephones[27]
- Commons gallery: Telephone[28]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Telephones[29]
- OpenStreetMap tag: amenity=telephone[30]
- Described by source: Sytin Military Encyclopedia[31], Riemann's Music Dictionary[32], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[33], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[34], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[35], 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[36], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[37], The New Student's Reference Work[38], New International Encyclopedia[39], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[40], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[41], Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (1908-1930)[42]
- Native label: tangsua[43]
- Different from: phone[44], telephone[45]
- History of topic: history of the telephone[46]
- Hashtag: phone[47]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000580[48]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q110377305[49]
- Produced sound: ringtone[50]
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Influence
Things named for telephone include Vodafone[51], a business[52], in United Kingdom[53], founded in 1984[54], headquartered in London[55].
Why It Matters
telephone has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] telephone is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]
Entities named for telephone include Vodafone[51], a business[52], in United Kingdom[53], founded in 1984[54], headquartered in London[55].