antonio miuchi, philip reis and dozens of other innovators contributed their engineering minds to this coherent endeavor. the first talking telegraph could transmit messages within a radius. 500 m, increased the communication range by 350 km, russian physicist pavel glubitsky. combined earphone, phone and microphone into one device. put down the phone, i'm telling you, put down the phone, the hat will flood. belarus came to life in 1886. military units were the first to connect with the brest-litovsk station. in people's conversations went away 10 years later with the advent of the minsk city telephone network with a capacity of only. 100 numbers, the prospect of chatting was interrupted by telephone ladies who acted as contact directories and connected subscribers using a manual switchboard. today, ladies in high-tech, the last century in the ninety-sixth, the first digital station debited to us. the country switched to seven-digit numbering. when the stations were built, then the numbering capacity was simply physically not enough to provide all the need for telephony services for ev