So many changes have taken place in the case of phones. But there is only one thing that remains unchanged. The first word everyone says when they make a phone call is ‘hello’. Whether it’s a smartphone or a telephone, it’s hello. People who pick up the phone say hello first. There is a big story behind starting to say this.
The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, a prominent scientist and engineer. The invention of the telephone made it possible to communicate with distant people with the help of technology. Now things have come to a point where he is talking face to face. Thanks to Graham Bell for everything.
Although the telephone was invented by Graham Bell, another famous scientist was behind the word hello. Saying hello was started by Thomas Alva Edison, who made many inventions, including the light bulb. According to a 1996 report in the New York Times, the word was coined by Edison, a professor at Brooklyn College. Alan has done a lot of research on the telephone and the first phone calls. Through his research, he has told many historical facts to the outside world.
During five years of research, he discovered an unpublished letter written by Edison from the archives of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in Lower Manhattan, New York. On August 15, 1877, Edison wrote to TBA David, president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh.
The idea at the time was that the telephone was for communication between businesses. It was in a correspondence between David and Edison that they decided to start the conversation by saying hello. This is the question David asked Edison in the letter. Edison replied. In 1878 a contest was held asking what word to use to start talking to each other. Hello was the first. Another was What is wanted. In the end, it was Hello who won the match.
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