Cyrille Duquet
Cyrille Duquet is the inventor of the first telephone handset, or transceiver, in 1878.[1]
Even though he is less known in the history of the invention of the telephone, the handset he created is still in use worldwide on land-line PSTN telephones. Originally working in the field of clocks and watches, he was also a passionate jewellery collector. He is credited for inventing the first telephone that had a combined system of the transmitter and the receiver in a single unit. Duquet sold his patent later for just over 2,000 dollars.
Cyrille Duquet
Cyrille Duquet ( Quebec , 31 March 1841 - Québec , 1 st December 1922 ) is a goldsmith, flutist and inventor Quebec .
Inventor and visionary
At about the same time as Graham Bell (with whom he got in), he developed a telephone connecting his home and shop. He endowed the city soon Québec , which was one of the first in the world to benefit from all this revolutionary invention. He wanted to buy the rights to Bell, but was refused the amount of $ 100,000 required, its bankers considering this invention without a future. However, it is left to him the undisputed paternity - and recognized - the handset in use worldwide.
The main clock of the National Assembly of Quebec bear his signature. That of Saint-Jean-Baptiste library is also his creation. A government building, located on Boulevard Charest in Quebec City, was named in his honor, and Quebec Street bears his name.
Fleetford Charles Sise, vice-president of the Canadian Telephone Company, gives notice because he believes Cyrille Duquet plagiarized Bell. Mr. Duquet gets away with damages of about $ 10 and sold his invention for the sum of $ 2,100 provided to waive any project in the world of telephony.
Musician
Excellent flutist, Cyrille Duquet was a member of the Septet Haydn, virtuoso ensemble of Quebec, some of whom have joined the Société symphonique de Québec (now Quebec Symphony Orchestra ) in 1903 .
Politician
He was a municipal councilor in Quebec François Langelier and Simon-Napoléon Parent between 1883 and 1890 and from 1900 to 1908.
He died at Quebec , the 1 st December 1922 at the age of 81 years. He was buried in Notre-Dame-de-Belmont .
References
- ↑ Jean-Guy Rens and Käthe Roth (2001). The Invisible Empire: A History of the Telecommunications Industry in Canada. McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 58–60. ISBN 978-0-7735-2052-3.
- "Cyrille Duquet". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2005.