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Første telefonapparat

“Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you”, sa Alexander Graham Bell når han ringte sin assistent 10. mars 1876. Dermed var tidenes første telefonsamtale gjennomført.
Det samme året tok Bell patent på teknologien og er for mange kjent som opphavsmannen til den elektriske telefonen. Dette gjorde Alexander Graham Bell til en kjent og velstående mann, men var det egentlig han som oppfant telefonen?

Antonio Meucci (1808–89) ble i 2002 av Representantenes hus i USA tillagt æren for å ha funnet opp telefonen. Han arbeidet i et teater i Firenze i Italia som scenetekniker og konstruerte der en primitiv rørtelefon slik at teknikerne kunne kommunisere. I 1849 hadde Meucci bearbeidet teknikken og sendte sin egen stemme gjennom en kobbertråd fra et rom til et annet i sitt hjem på Cuba. Meucci flyttet til New York, og i årene frem til 1862 utviklet han minst 30 forskjellige prototyper av sin såkalte teletrofono.

Men Meucci var for fattig til å søke om patent for sin oppfinnelse. I 1870, idet Meucci var klar for å demonstrere telefonen sin offentlig, ble han kraftig forbrent i en brann ombord i en ferge hvor han var passasjer. For å få penger til medisiner ble prototypene hans solgt. I 1876 leste han til sin overraskelse at Alexander Graham Bell ble tillagt æren for å ha funnet opp telefonen.

Alexander Graham Bell viser frem telefonen

I perioden 10. mai 1876 til 10. november 1876 ble det i Philadelphia USA avholdt en utstilling: "Verdensutstillingen i Philadelphia i 1876, (Centennial International Exhibition, International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and products of the Soil and Mine)" Dette var den første offisielle verdensutstillingen som gikk av stabelen i USA og formålet var å feire hundreårsjubileet for USAs selvstendighetserklæring som ble undertegnet i Philadelphia i 1776.
Og på denne utstillingen hadde også Ålesund sendt en representant, nemlig Joakim Anderssen var sterkt engasjert politisk, og var på besøk på verdensutstillingen i Philadelphia 1876 som jurymedlem i fiskeriseksjonen, og her fikk han kontakt med Alexander Graham Bell, som på utstillingen presenterte telefonen for første gang.
Dette endte opp med at Anderssen kjøpte to apperater som han sendte hjem til Ålesund. Anderssen hadde hus i Skaret, der Skaregata no krysser Storgata. Og han fikk montert disse to apperatene mellom Anderssens firma og hans private hjem i 1876 her i Ålesund. Første samtale foregikk mellom far og sønn. Den historiske samtalen skjedde fire år før telefonen offisielt kom til Norge.

English

“Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you", said Alexander Graham Bell when he called his assistant on 10 March 1876. Thus the first ever telephone conversation was completed.
In the same year, Bell took out a patent for the technology and is known to many as the inventor of the electric telephone. This made Alexander Graham Bell a famous and wealthy man, but was he really the one who invented the telephone?

First telephone set
In 2002, Antonio Meucci (1808–89) was awarded the honor of inventing the telephone by the House of Representatives in the United States. He worked in a theater in Florence, Italy as a stage technician and there constructed a primitive tube phone so that the technicians could communicate. By 1849, Meucci had perfected the technique and was sending his own voice through a copper wire from one room to another in his home in Cuba. Meucci moved to New York, and in the years leading up to 1862 he developed at least 30 different prototypes of his so-called teletrophono.

But Meucci was too poor to apply for a patent for his invention. In 1870, as Meucci was ready to demonstrate his telephone in public, he was badly burned in a fire on board a ferry where he was a passenger. To get money for medicines, his prototypes were sold. In 1876, to his surprise, he read that Alexander Graham Bell was credited with inventing the telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell shows off the telephone

The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair to be held in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. Officially named the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine.

And at this exhibition Ålesund had also sent a representative, namely Joakim Anderssen was strongly involved politically, and was visiting the world exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 as a jury member in the fisheries section, and here he came into contact with Alexander Graham Bell, who at the exhibition presented the telephone for the first time time.
This ended up with Anderssen buying two devices which he sent home to Ålesund. Anderssen had a house in Skaret, where Skaregata now crosses Storgata. And he had these two devices installed between Anderssen's company and his private home in 1876 here in Ålesund. The first conversation took place between father and son. The historic conversation took place four years before the telephone officially arrived in Norway.

Oppgave norsk:

• Tegn en telefon på et papir med cache navnet ditt på, og hold opp mot bygget og ta bilde som du legger ved i loggen se bilde under ( det spiller ingen rolle hva slags telefon du tegner, eller hvor godt du tegner den, bare man ser at det ligner en telefon )
• Frivillig: Om du ønsker og klarer ta gjerne et bilde av deg selv der du står med en telefone, eller bruker tommel og lillefinger som telefon og later som du ringer herfra og legg ved i loggen
• Frivillig: er dere flere til stede og ønsker så hadde det vert gøy å få bilder der dere prater i "hyssing telefoner" og legg ved i loggen

Task English

• Draw a phone on a piece of paper with your caching nick below, and take a photo of it against the building and post this photo with your log see photo below (it doesn't matter what kind of phone you draw, or how well you draw it, as long as it looks like a phone )
• Voluntary: If you want and are able, please take a picture of yourself standing with a phone or using your thumb and little finger as a phone and pretend to call from here and attach it to the log
• Voluntary: if you are a group and want to, it would be fun to get pictures of you talking on a "Tin can telephone" and attach it to the log

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