Yes, a telephone uses electricity. Per the "How Stuff Works" link, below, the land telephone uses different wires than your home or business' electric power lines. Thus, if your home or business loses electrical power (i.e., the lights, computers, etc, go out), your land phone may continue to work, provided that nothing has happened to the phone line (i.e., its wire was severed or the phone company feeding power to your phone lost power, etc).
No, it is not safe to plug both a telephone and an electricity cable into the same socket. Mixing different types of cables can lead to electrical hazards, short circuits, or damage to the devices connected. It is important to use sockets for their intended purposes to prevent any accidents or damage.
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A telegraph, a telephone, and a teletype.
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A telephone is an instrument that sends voices using electricity. Sound waves are converted into electrical signals, transmitted through wires or wireless networks, and then converted back into sound at the receiving end, allowing people to communicate over long distances in real time.
If your telephone came with a charger then yes it uses a small amount of electricity. This is what the charger does, it replenishes the electricity that the telephone used while not connected to the charger.
Both use electricity and radio waves to communicate.
The huge answer to this is Electricity, Airplanes and the telephone, to which we still use but in advanced mode.
Telephone, as in land lines. Cellular phones use electromagnetic radiation.
Telephone & Electricity
The telephone would have no use to someone in the past because they would have the only one. This would make it impossible for them to contact anyone. Also if it was too far in the past there would be no electricity making this telephone even more useless. Almost as useless as this question.
No, it is not safe to plug both a telephone and an electricity cable into the same socket. Mixing different types of cables can lead to electrical hazards, short circuits, or damage to the devices connected. It is important to use sockets for their intended purposes to prevent any accidents or damage.
telephone and electricity
Electricity powers computers which in turn processes information and communicates it on a wide spectrum. Before the invention of computers, telephone transmission and even now cell phone transmission of information is powered by electricity.
take your telephone or your mobile phone and dial sun in it.... your sun will be dialed n u can use it under sun (solar energy) or in your house (electricity)
it conducts the electricity in the cables
the telephone, and the lightbulb