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Research draft

telephone

vr.tr.telephone · PHY.OBJ

Let an agent explain the telephone and how it works across generations, describe telephone networks and services, support choosing and using telephones, and describe history and social impact.

Thing Registry Physical world and living systems

Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain the telephone and how it works across generations, describe telephone networks and services, support choosing and using telephones, and describe history and social impact.

A telecommunications device that converts speech into electrical or digital signals for transmission over wires, radio or networks and reproduces speech at the receiving end, from the wired telephones of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to cordless phones, mobile phones and smartphones and voice over internet services; the telephone transformed communication and remains a basic home and business appliance and, in mobile form, a personal computing device.

What it is for: Device for voice communication at a distance.

It can be explain how telephones work; describe networks and services; support choice and use; describe history.

Distinguishing features

Two-way voice

Network-connected

Generations of technology

Ubiquitous

What it looks like

Handsets with microphone and speaker, wired or mobile.

How it is recognised

Transmits and reproduces speech at a distance

Wired, cordless, mobile

A radio broadcasts one way; a telegraph sends codes

Related models

is a kind of - category

telecommunications device

is a kind of - category

means of communication

is related to - wireless infrastructure

radio communication station

is related to - input devices on smartphones

computer keyboard

In practice

Families and kinds

wired landline telephones

cordless telephones

mobile phones and smartphones

voice over internet telephony

payphones and special telephones

Standards and regulation

Telecommunications standards and numbering

Emergency call obligations

Consumer and privacy regulation

Failure modes and hazards

Fraud and scam calls

Network outages affecting emergency calls

Privacy and surveillance concerns

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.telephone

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand How telephones work.

Technology.

Principle

Principle.

Principle

Principle.

  1. How do telephones convert and transmit speech, from analogue wired systems to digital and mobile networks? definition
  2. Which generation of telephone is meant? boundary

Networks

Networks and services.

Networks

Networks.

  1. How do telephone networks, numbering and interconnection work, including mobile and internet telephony? provenance
  2. Which entry fits telecommunications networks? action
Use Choosing and using.

Practice.

Choose

Choosing a telephone.

Choose

Choosing.

  1. Which type of telephone or service suits this need, considering cost, coverage and accessibility? action
  2. Which entry fits a specific device category? action

Safety

Safety and fraud.

Safety

Safety.

  1. How can users protect themselves from scam calls and fraud, according to regulators? provenance
  2. Is an emergency call needed now? boundary
Society Regulation and society.

Context.

Regulation

Regulation.

Regulation

Regulation.

  1. How are telephone services regulated for access, emergency calls and privacy? provenance
  2. Which entry fits telecommunications regulation? action

Impact

Social impact.

Impact

Impact.

  1. How has the telephone changed society, work and personal life, according to historians and researchers? provenance
  2. Which findings are contested? boundary
Learn History and teaching.

Education.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did the telephone develop from Bell and contemporaries to the smartphone? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can telephone technology be taught? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should mobile phones be a separate entry?
  • How should telecom regulators be linked?
  • How should history resources be linked?