Lars Magnus Ericsson was born in 1847 in
Stockholm Sweden, where he also later would found his own
company (L.M. Ericsson & Co) in 1876. Although
Ericsson did not invent the telephone (this is generally credited to Alexander Bell), he was the main developer behind
the world's first telephone switch board as well as an
entire range of other telecommunications hardware such as
the dial telegraph (mainly used by the railway in the
early 1900) and the fire telegraph. Ericsson was also responsible for the
invention of the world's first wall telephone that was
also soon to be nicknamed as the Commonwealth Ericsson
due to its wide use throughout the Commonwealth of the
time.
Ericsson was always striving to improve his designs and
his technology, which lead to his phones being used in households up
until 1964.
Ericsson eventually retired in 1901 and became a farmer
on the outskirts of Stockholm and passed away in 1926 at the age of 80.
