- Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and innovator. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1870, and then to the United States in 1871, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1882. Bell was awarded the U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876; although other inventors had claimed the honor, the Bell patent remained in effect. - Thomas Watson
Thomas Augustus Watson (17 February 1854 - 13 December 1934) was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone in 1876. He is best known because his name is reportedly the first word spoken over the telephone. "Watson! Come here, I need you!", were allegedly the first words Bell said using the new invention. Sources differ on whether the exact word used was "need" or "want". - Jean-Louis Aubert
Jean-Louis Aubert is a French guitarist, singer and songwriter. In 1976, he co-founded the rock band Téléphone. After their split, he recorded a single album (Platre et Ciment) with Téléphone's drummer Richard Kolinka as Aubert'n'Ko (1987), and in 1989 released his first solo album, "Blue Blanc Vert". - Louis Bertignac
Louis Bertignac is a French guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.An ex Shakin' Street member and A founding member in 1976 of the rock band Téléphone, he formed Bertignac et les Visiteurs after Téléphone split in 1986. Tony Visconti produced his first solo album, "Elle et Louis" (1993). In 2004, he produced, arranged and played guitar on the debut album by Carla Bruni, "Quelqu'un m'a dit". - George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse, Jr (6 October 1846-12 March 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. He is now best known for the brand of electrical goods that bear his name. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system. - Jim Lewis
James "Jim" Lewis (born 26 June 1927 in Hackney) is a retired English footballer. He was one of the most successful amateur footballers of his generation. Lewis began his football career as a 16-year-old with the famous amateur side Walthamstow Avenue (his father had also played for them) and in two stints with the club scored 423 goals in 522 appearances, mainly as a centre forward. He had briefly left Walthamstow to play for Leyton Orient, … - Jim Jackson
James Arthur (Jim or Jimmy) Jackson (born October 14 1970 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association, most recently for the Los Angeles Lakers. Over his 14 NBA seasons, Jackson has been on the active roster of 11 different teams. - Susan Block
Susan Marilyn Block, Ph.D., also known as Dr. Susan Block and Dr. Suzy, is an American sexologist, author, filmmaker, therapist, cable TV talk show host and cultural commentator. She is perhaps best-known for her television specials on HBO Chosen as one of "America's Greatest Thinkers" by the Great American Think-Off of New York Mills, Minnesota, … - Thomas A. Watson
Thomas Augustus Watson (January 18 1854 - December 13 1934) was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone in 1876. He is best known because his name is reportedly the first word spoken over the telephone. "Mr. Watson! Come here; I want to see you!", were the first words Bell said using the new invention, according to Bell's laboratory notebook. Later sources differ on whether the exact word used was "need" or "want". - Darren Entwistle
"I am very pleased to be joining the IIT and working with its partners to leverage TELUS' expertise in innovation and business development for this leading organization," said Entwistle. "Over the years, the IIT has become an outstanding centre for sharing knowledge and cooperation at the technological level. - Bob Log III
'Bob Log III' is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and the sole member of his own eponymous one-man, lo-fi blues band, based in Tucson, Arizona. During performances, Log wears a blue full body jumpsuit and a bubble-mask motorcycle helmet wired with a telephone microphone which allows him to devote his hands and feet to guitar and drums, respectively. He has made frequent tours of North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. - Frank Sinatra Jr.
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (born January 10, 1944) is an American singer and conductor. He is the son of famed musician Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato. Frank Jr. has always existed in the shadow of his far more famous father. His supporters feel that if he had been born with another name he could have achieved quite a following of his own, while his detractors have claimed that he has made his entire career off his name. - Charles Bourseul
Charles Bourseul was born in Brussels, Belgium on the 28th of April 1829, and grew up in Douai, France. He is sometime credited with being an inventor of the telephone, as he wrote a memorandum on such a principle in 1854, though no prototype was realised. That is circa the same date that Meucci created his first telephone in Italy. Bourseul died in Saint-Céré, France on the 23rd November 1912, at the age of 83. - Leo Baekeland
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Ghent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. Born in Ghent, Belgium, Baekeland was the son of a cobbler and a maid. Upon completing his doctorate at the University of Ghent, he emigrated to America in 1889. Baekeland sold his patent for Velox photographic paper to the president of Kodak, … - Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Melville Bell (March 1, 1819-August 7, 1905), Scottish-American teacher and father of Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone), was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied under and became the principal assistant of his father, Alexander Bell, an authority on phonetics and defective speech. From 1843 to 1865 he lectured on elocution at the University of Edinburgh, and from 1865 to 1870 at the University of London. In 1868, and again in 1870 and 1871, … - Johann Philipp Reis
Johann Philipp Reis (January 7, 1834 - January 24, 1874) was a self-taught German scientist and inventor who constructed one of the first working telephones, today called Reis' telephone. - Jim Skinner
James "Slim Jim" A. Skinner is the Vice Chairman and Chief executive officer (CEO) of McDonald's. He was voted to the position in November, 2004. He has confessed (off the record, in a sports bar) to Fox News reporter Susan Yeo that he has never personally eaten a McDonald's. He is a vegan. "The Observer" wrote that Skinner has summoned reporters to Chicago, where McDonald's is headquartered, … - Lars Magnus Ericsson
Lars Magnus Ericsson was a Swedish inventor and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as "Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson"). Lars Magnus was born in Värmskog, Värmland and grew up in the small village of Vegerbol, between Karlstad and Arvika. At the age of twelve his father died, and he had to start working as a miner. He worked until he had money enough to leave the village and move to Stockholm in 1867. - Joybubbles
Joybubbles (born May 25, 1949 as Joe Engressia in Richmond, Virginia, USA) was an early phone phreak. Born blind, he became interested in telephones at age four. Being gifted with perfect pitch, he was able to whistle 2600 hertz into a telephone (see Blue box). A student at the University of South Florida in the late 1960s, he was given the nickname "Whistler" due to his ability to place free long-distance phonecalls with his whistle. - Mark Abene
Mark Abene (born 1972), better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, is a convicted computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik was once a member of the Hacker Groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception. In 1994, he served a one-year prison sentence for conspiracy and unauthorized access to computer and telephone systems. Phiber Optik was a high-profile hacker in the early 1990s, appearing in The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, … - Jane Barbe
Jane Barbe (July 29, 1928-July 18, 2003) had one of the most recognized voices in the U.S. even though few know her name or face, because she made the recordings long heard by telephone callers when they dialed a number "no longer in service." Barbe, a Florida native who grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, studied drama at the University of Georgia. After graduating, she worked as a copywriter, though due to her poor spelling, … - Thaddeus Cahill
Thaddeus Cahill (1867 - 1934) was a prominent inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the teleharmonium. Cahill had tremendous ambitions for his invention; he wanted teleharmonium music to be broadcast into hotels, restaurants, theaters, and even houses via the telephone line. At a weight of 7 tons and a price tag of $200,000, only three teleharmoniums were ever built, … - Scott Savol
Scott Thomas Savol (born April 30, 1976) is an American singer and was the 5th place finalist on the fourth season of "American Idol". He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, although claims to be from Shaker Heights, Ohio because he attended school there. Scott is the father of a 4-year-old son (Brandon). He also plays the trumpet and has performed at city and church functions. - Heinrich von Stephan
Heinrich von Stephan (January 7, 1831 - April 8, 1897) was a general post director for the German Empire who reorganized the German postal service. He was integral in the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874, and in 1877 introduced the telephone to Germany. Stephan began his career as a local postal worker. - Tivadar Puskás
Tivadar Puskás was a Hungarian inventor, telephone pioneer, and inventor of the telephone exchange. His family was part of the Transylvanian nobility. Puskas studied law and later engineering sciences. After living in England and working for the Warnin Railway Construction Company he returned to Hungary. In 1873, on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Vienna, he founded the Puskas Travel Agency, … - Foster Hewitt
Foster William Hewitt, OC (November 21, 1902 - April 21, 1985) was a Canadian radio pioneer. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Hewitt attended Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. He was a champion boxer in his student years, winning the intercollegiate title at 112 pounds. Hewitt developed an early interest in radio and as a teenager accompanied his father, W. A. Hewitt, on a trip to Detroit, … - John Stone Stone
John Stone Stone (September 24, 1869 - May 20, 1943) was an American mathematician, physicist and inventor. He labored as an early telephone engineer, was influential in developing wireless communication technology, and holds dozens of key patents in the field of "space telegraphy". - Brandon Dicamillo
Brandon Ralph DiCamillo(born November 15, 1976 in West Chester, Pennsylvania also known as "Dico") is an American actor, stuntman and screenwriter. He was a founding member of the CKY Crew and rose to fame through appearances in the CKY video series and MTV's "Jackass", "Viva La Bam" and "Bam's Unholy Union". DiCamillo is also a comedic voice talent and vocalist with the band Gnarkill. - Innocenzo Manzetti
Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti was born in the Aosta Valley. Following primary school he went to the Jesuit-run Saint Bénin boarding school and then on to Turin where he was awarded a diploma in land surveying before returning to Aosta. In 1844 Manzetti first mooted the idea of a “speaking telegraph” (telephone), but didn't pursue the idea at the time. In 1849 he constructed a flute-playing automaton. It was in the shape of a man, life-size, … - Thomas Ahearn
Thomas Ahearn, PC (June 24 1855 - June 28 1938) was a Canadian inventor and businessman. He was born in the Lebreton Flats area of Ottawa in 1855. He began work as a telegraph operator with the J.R. Booth Company, later becoming a manager in several early telephone companies in Ottawa, including the Bell Telephone Company office in Ottawa. In 1882, he founded the firm of Ahearn & Soper, electrical contractors, with Warren Soper. - Jackie Stallone
Jackie Stallone, (born November 29, 1921 in Washington, D.C.) is an astrologer and celebrity who is the mother of the Hollywood action film star Sylvester Stallone, and of the singer Frank Stallone. - Scott A. Jones
Scott A. Jones (born in 1960) is an American inventor, serial entrepreneur and pioneer. For more than two decades, Jones has created companies that have produced over a dozen award-winning industry firsts. He revolutionized the modern workplace in the mid-1980s, when at 25 years old, after forming his first company, Boston Technology, he invented the voicemail system that is now used by nearly all telephone companies around the globe. - Barbara Cox Anthony
Barbara Cox Anthony was the second and youngest daughter of James M. Cox, a Democratic Governor of Ohio, newspaper publisher and broadcaster. With her sister Anne Cox Chambers she inherited, via a trust, ownership and control of her father’s company, now called Cox Enterprises. Her net worth was estimated at $12 billion, … - Kit Malthouse
Kit Malthouse (born 1966) is a British politician and former city councillor and Deputy Leader for Westminster City Council in London. Malthouse is a member of the Conservative Party has led a battle, for five years, to eliminate prostitution advertising in telephone booths. Malthouse is the owner and chief executive of Alpha Strategic PLC, a financial firm. - Stephen M. Cohen
Stephen Michael Cohen is an American and Internet entrepreneur who has been closely involved in several dubious Internet ventures. He is most notable for fraudulently obtaining the sex.com domain name and for organizing, or being highly involved in, the peer-to-peer service EarthStation 5. While imprisoned, Cohen was a cellmate of junk bond king Michael Milken and the two men continue to be close friends. - Larry Gene Bell
Larry Gene Bell was a double murderer in Lexington County, South Carolina, who was electrocuted on October 4 1996 for the murders of Sheri Fay Smith and Debra May Helmick. Bell was especially infamous because he forced his victims to write a "Last Will and Testament" before they were murdered, and taunted their parents by telephone. - Thubten Gyatso 13th Dalai Lama
Thubten Gyatso (born February 12, 1876; died December 17, 1933), also spelled Thupten Gyatso, was the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet. He was an intelligent reformer who proved himself a skillful politician when Tibet became a pawn in the great game between Imperial Russia, China, and the British Empire. - Ernest Esclangon
Ernest Benjamin Esclangon was a French astronomer and mathematician. Born in Mison (near Sisteron), France, in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898. Looking for some means of financial support while he completed his doctorate on quasi-periodic functions, he took a post at the Bordeaux Observatory, teaching some mathematics at the university. - Esteban Terradas I Illa
Esteban Terradas i Illa (born Barcelona, 15 September 1883; died Madrid, 9 May 1950) was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences, working not only in his native Catalonia, but also in the rest of Spain and in South America. He was also active as a consultant in the Spanish telephone and railway industries. He held two doctorates (in mathematics and physics) on 1904, … - Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D, LL.D. (4 October, 1854 - 12 March, 1935; Serbian Cyrillic: "Михајло Идворски Пупин"), also known as Michael I. Pupin, was a Serbian physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his landmark theory of modern electrical filters as well as for his numerous patents, …
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