Telephone

Liquid Transmitter

1876

The liquid transmitter shows how we first started out with phones and soon evolved from this simple machine.

Strowger 10 Digit Automatic Wall Telephone

1899

This version of the phone was the first telephone that used a rotary motion dialer.

Strowger 11 Digit Desk Telephone

1905

After the strowger 10 had the first rotary dial and the strowger 11 had the first seperate ringing device.

Magnavox Anti-noise Desk Set

1920

The feature that was introduced when this version of the phone is in its name, the anti-noise phone. This phone had a silent feature that was not loud.

Frankfurt "Bauhaus" Telephone

1925

This version of the phone became more simplistic, clean design in the late 1920's.

Videophone

1927

The device was the first two-way electronic video communicator, which since then has become normal for phones.

AEG Telecar CD

1980

The AEG Telecar CD was the first mobile phone although it was very heavy, expensive and bulky.

Motorola DynaTAC 8000x

1983

This new version of the phone was truly the first mobile telephone that could connect to a telephone network.

Siemens AG GSM Phone

1991

This first mobile phone was the the very first with a colour screen and its been a normal part of phones since then.

IBM Simon

1994

The IBM Simon was one of the first devices that was considered a "smart phone" that had a personal digital assistant with communication abilities through cellular connection.

Sharp J-SH04

2000

This version of the phone came with the new ability to instantly email photos they took for all users.

Iphone 1

2007

This was the first ever iPhone release that was slimmer, more advanced, more internet use, video and audio playback abilities. This started a normal process of Apple releasing new versions of the iPhone every year.