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Telephone

By T_Vaninwegen_World_4

  • Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

    Significance: Allowed communication between people at different locations.

  • First complete sentence of speech transmitted by a telephone in Boston

    Significane: Beginning to the many hours of talking that would follow.

  • Telephone subscribers began to be designated by numbers rather than names.

    Significance: allowed more subscribers per switching station.

  • The first automatic dial system was patented by a Kansas City undertaker.

    Significance; Switchboard operators were no longer necessary to make a telephone call.

  • Opening of long distance telephone service, New York to Chicago, 950 miles.

    Significance: People could now communicate over long distances.

  • Bell System completes a U.S. transcontinental telephone line.

    Significance: Everyone in US was connected and able to communicate across the country.

  • Opening of Second Trans-continental telephone line, southern route.

    Significance: more connections and lines available.

  • Opening of transatlantic telephone service between New York and London, 3500 miles.

    Significance: people can now make calls over seas.

  • First commercial mobile telephone service became available in St. Louis, Missouri (USA).

    Significance: People can now purchase mobile telephone service which would follow by a highly competitve industry.

  • AT&T comes out with the first radio-car-phones that can be used only on the highway between New York and Boston; they are known as push-to-talk phones.

    Significance: People can use phones wirelessly on a stratch of highway, however there is significant interfereance.

  • Time-division multiplexing is applied to telephony.

    Significance: people were now charged by minutes for placing calls.

  • Xerox fax introduced

    Significance: important documents could be sent and printed at another location.

  • Motorola demonstrates the cellular telephone to the FCC.

    Significance: Wireless calling is now available.

  • Introduction of text messaging

    Significance: people can now quickly send short messages between mobile devices.

  • Introduction of Blutooth

    Significance: Allows people to talk hand free. Considered a safer method for drivers.

  • Introduction of the Blackberry

    Significance: the beginning to one of the biggest phone models capable of emailing, internet access, calendars, etc.

  • Nokia 7110- first phone with WAP Mobile Web

    Significance: internet access available mobily

  • First camera phone

    Significance: allows people to take pictures and save them on mobile devices.

  • Introduction to 3G high speed data

    Significance: Allowed much quicker communication through various methods. It was like having a mini laptop in your pocket.

  • Apple releases the IPhone

    Significance: one of the most popular, high tech, and quick phones available.