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In telecommunication, telephony ( /təˈlɛfəni/ tə-lef-ə-nee) encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other. The telephone, often colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other.
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- The Telephone and How it Works as it appeared in the March 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- On Edison's Talking-Machine, by Alfred Marshall Mayer as it appeared in the April 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- How Sound and Words are Produced, by Alfred Marshall Mayer, by George M. Shaw as it appeared in the May 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- Edison's Telephonic and Acoustic Inventions as it appeared in the December 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- The Carbon Button, by Edmund Arthur Engler as it appeared in the May 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- On the Production of Sound by Light, by Alexander Graham Bell as it appeared in the October 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- The Telephone, with a Sketch of its Inventor, Philipp Reis as it appeared in the August 1883 Popular Science Monthly
- Under-Ground Wires, by William W. Jacques as it appeared in the February 1884 Popular Science Monthly