A Hungarian engineer, Tivadar Puskás, quickly invented the telephone switchboard in 1876, which allowed for the formation of telephone exchanges, and eventually networks.

During the next two centuries they were fully assimilated to the Hungarian population, their language disappeared, but they preserved their Jassic identity and their regional autonomy until 1876.

Ferenc Deák de Kehida (), ( October 17, 1803, Söjtör-January 28, 1876, Budapest ), was a Hungarian statesman and Minister of Justice.

Franz Liszt used the cimbalom in his Ungarischer Sturmmarsch ( 1876 ) and in the orchestral version of his Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6.

* Johann Jacob Löwenthal Hungarian Jewish professional chess master, one of the most famous chessmasters of his age, died here in 1876.

The term was proposed in 1876 by Moritz Kaposi ( 1837 – 1902 ), a Hungarian dermatologist.

During the next two centuries they were fully assimilated to the Hungarian population, their language disappeared, but they preserved their Jassic identity and their regional autonomy until 1876.

In 1876 he became a member of the arbitration committee of the Budapest exchange, and contributed much toward promoting Hungarian commerce and industry.

In 1876 he was appointed assistant custodian of the state archives, in 1904 chief custodian ; and in 1892 he was elected a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray.

The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith with the differential analyzer, built by H. L. Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT starting in 1927, which in turn built on the mechanical integrators invented in 1876 by James Thomson and the torque amplifiers invented by H. W. Nieman.

In 1876, Russian engineer Pavel Yablochkov invented a lighting system based on a set of induction coils where the primary windings were connected to a source of alternating current and the secondary windings could be connected to several " electric candles " ( arc lamps ) of his own design.

* The prototype telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.

The Carburetor was invented by an Italian, Luigi De Cristoforis in 1876.

This job overlapped with that of president of the New Orleans and Carrollton Street Railway ( 1866 – 1876 ), where he invented a system of cable-powered street railway cars.

Willem Hendrik Keesom ( 21 June 1876, Texel – 24 March 1956, Leiden ) was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium.

Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison invented the telephone and phonograph in 1876 and 1877 respectively, and the American Library Association was founded in Philadelphia.

It was invented in 1876 in Europe.

Margaret Colvin invented the Triumph Rotary Washer, which was exhibited in the Women's Pavilion at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia.

Brantford is sometimes known by its style The Telephone City, as a former city resident, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone on the community's outskirts and conducted the first distant telephone call from the Brantford to Paris, Ontario in 1876.

Additionally, Alexander Graham Bell's family's first home in North America was a farmhouse on Tutela Heights ( named after the First Nations tribe which settled the area, and later absorbed into Brantford ) where Bell invented the electric telephone in July, 1874 — although he built his first working model in Boston — and then developed early improvements to it in 1876.

In 1876, Otto invented the four-stroke cycle, also known as the Otto Cycle, a system characterized by four piston strokes ( intake, compression, power, and exhaust ).

It was invented in 1876 by Francis Galton ; the whistle was mentioned in his book Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development.

Inspired by the mammoth internal combustion engine invented by George Brayton displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, Selden began working on a smaller lighter version, succeeding by 1878, some eight years before the public introduction of the Benz Patent Motorwagen in Europe, in producing a one-cylinder, 400-pound version which featured an enclosed crankshaft with the help of Rochester machinist Frank H. Clement and his assistant William Gomm.

Many of the buildings and statues were made of staff, a low-cost temporary building material invented in Paris in 1876, which consisted of jute fiber, plaster of Paris, and cement.

A Yablochkov candle ( sometimes electric candle ) is a type of electric carbon arc lamp, invented in 1876 by Pavel Yablochkov.

Willis Haviland Carrier ( November 26, 1876 – October 6, 1950 ) was an American engineer who invented modern air conditioning.

Gaun Tacchi （ 臥雲辰致 ） ( 1842 – 1900 ) was born in the Edo period, he invented the " Gara Bouki " in 1876.

In 1876, John Danner of Canton, Ohio, invented a revolving bookcase with a patented " pivot and post " design.

Staff was invented in France about 1876 and was used in the construction and ornamentation of the buildings of the Paris Expositions of 1878 and of 1889.

In 1895, they discovered the Dewey Decimal Classification, a library classification system that had been invented in 1876.

* 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.

* 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying " Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.

The first telephone patent was issued to Alexander Graham Bell in March 1876.

An undisputed fact is that Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) in March 1876.

* 11 February 1876 — Gray invents a liquid transmitter for use with a telephone but does not build one.

* 10 March 1876 — The first successful telephone transmission of clear speech using a liquid transmitter when Bell spoke into his device, “ Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you .” and Watson heard each word distinctly.

; 1876: Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell patented his first electric loudspeaker ( capable of reproducing intelligible speech ) as part of his telephone in 1876, which was followed in 1877 by an improved version from Ernst Siemens.

During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include among others the first post office ( 1836 ), the first naval base ( 1836 ), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order ( 1840 ); the first cotton compress ( 1842 ), the first parochial school ( Ursuline Academy ) ( 1847 ), the first insurance company ( 1854 ), the first gas lights ( 1856 ), the first opera house ( 1870 ), the first orphanage ( 1876 ), the first telephone ( 1878 ) and the first electric lights ( 1883 ).

The history of voice communication technology begins in 1876 with the invention of Alexander Graham Bell ’ s telephone.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell achieved the first successful telephone transmission of clear speech.

Bell was a professor of Samuel Silas Curry's, and later Curry was present when Bell made the first telephone call in 1876.

On 25 June 1876, Bell's experimental telephone ( using a different design ) was demonstrated at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia where Henry was one of the judges for electrical exhibits.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell employed Latimer, then a draftsman at Bell's patent law firm, to draft the necessary drawings required to receive a patent for Bell's telephone.

Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent.

It was White's decision in 1876 to abandon Gray's caveat for the telephone.