On This Day in Telephone History May 4TH 1875

Alexander Graham Bell conceived of using varying resistance in a wire

conducting electric current to create a varying current amplitude.

Bell wrote in a letter to Gardiner Greene Hubbard:

“a continuous current of electricity passed through a vibrating wire

should meet with varying resistance, and hence a pulsatory action

should be induced in the current” – Alexander Graham Bell


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