What Am I?
- The most popular version of the clear telephone was the Unisonic 6900, which released in 1987.
- The Unisonic 6900 Clear Telephone cost $29.99 when it was released, which would be $72.07 in 2021 dollars when accounting for inflation!
- Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to be awarded a patent for an electronic telephone in 1876, but there were different versions of the telephone around before that.
- The term “telephone” is derived from Greek: τῆλε (tēle, far) and φωνή (phōnē, voice), together meaning distant voice.
- The first telephones were directly connected to each other from one customer’s location to another customer’s location. Being pretty impractical, these systems were soon replaced by manually operated, centrally located switchboards.
- The most popular version of the clear telephone was the Unisonic 6900, which released in 1987.
- The Unisonic 6900 Clear Telephone cost $29.99 when it was released, which would be $72.07 in 2021 dollars when accounting for inflation!
- Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to be awarded a patent for an electronic telephone in 1876, but there were different versions of the telephone around before that.
- The term “telephone” is derived from Greek: τῆλε (tēle, far) and φωνή (phōnē, voice), together meaning distant voice.
- The first telephones were directly connected to each other from one customer’s location to another customer’s location. Being pretty impractical, these systems were soon replaced by manually operated, centrally located switchboards.
