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Photophone

device invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter in 1880
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Photophone

Summary

Photophone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (99 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Photophone's image is recorded as Photophone.jpg[2].
  • Photophone's subclass of is recorded as telecommunications[3].
  • Photophone's Commons category is recorded as Photophone[4].
  • Photophone's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dhg1[5].
  • Photophone's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/Photophone[6].
  • Photophone's Treccani ID is recorded as fotofono[7].
  • Photophone's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as fotofon[8].
  • Photophone's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 66801048[9].
  • Photophone's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 7713[10].

Why It Matters

Photophone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (99 views/month).[1] Photophone has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] Photophone is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

telecommunications

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Photophone. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/photophone
MLA “Photophone.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/photophone.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_photophone_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Photophone}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/photophone}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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