Most 21st century historians start the history of doorbells around the 1800s with the advent of the first electric doorbell when Joseph Henry, who was the Smithsonian Institution’s first secretary, invented the electric doorbell in 1831. Apparently, calling it a “door bell” came from the fact that the 1800s is when the bells attached to one’s domicile saw a rise in fashionability and popularity. However, the need to notify someone of your arrival at a door at a sound level sufficiently loud enou