Cyrille Duquet

Cyrille Duquet is the inventor of the first telephone handset, or transceiver, in 1878.

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 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, on 1 December 1922 at the age of 81 years. He was buried in Notre-Dame-de-Belmont.