telephony

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

We jumped directly from human operators to something called the panel switch, a near-miracle of telephony in the 1910s and ’20s.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

That breakup has been credited with a host of innovations in telephony.

From Reuters • Jan. 26, 2023

“Legacy” networks that transmit calls the way they did before the internet revolutionized telephony aren’t covered.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2022

The era of commercial telephony began when Thomas Edison, who had invented the phonograph just a year prior, telephoned from his home in Menlo Park, New Jersey, to Philadelphia in 1878.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2019

Railways, steamships, aeroplanes, telegraphy, telephony and cinematographs have all emerged from the region of “impossibilities.”

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)