This all started with a man named Alexander Graham Bell. He was a man who wondered if you can transmit information through a telegraph as electrical impulses you can do the same with someones voice. When he created the telephone he put a patent on it in 1876. He was a business man with many wealthy friends. He taught teachers to teach deaf & mute kids how to speak. After he invented it he showed it to everyone. He did a public demonstration in Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. Thanks to him he made all this talking on the phone thing possible!