Just to clarify the use of phone / telephone: this is the contemporary terminology used at the time. Wireless telegraphy = Morse code used electromagnetic (rad

Just to clarify the use of phone / telephone: this is the contemporary terminology used at the time. Wireless telegraphy = Morse code used electromagnetic (radio / wireless) waves Wireless telephony = voice sent over electromagnetic (radio / wireless) waves; sometimes referred to as radio telephony, although using radio was more common in US and Germany than UK until after the First World War. And as a few other commentators pointed out, dialling is not an essential part of a telephone.