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1st Cell Phone Created
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FCC created the 1st telephone in the world (the Brik Phone)
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Period: to
The 70's
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1st Mobile Call Between Motorola AT&T
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Martin Cooper (Motorola) made the the 1st cell phone call between his rival, Joe Engel (AT&T), and himself.
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1st Domestic Sattilites Launched
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the world's first domestic sattilites are put in operation for phone uses
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U.S. Military starts using Fiber Optics
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The US military begins using fiberoptics as communication, starting with the installation on USS Little Rock (Fiber-optics is a digital way of transporting sound and data without being as interfered as regular cables, and lighter than regular cables)
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Fiber-Optics open to the public
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AT&T introduce Fiber-Optics to the public (it carried over 600 channels of telephone, data, and video)
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TAT-1 Retires
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After over 130 years of service, TAT-1, the world's first trans-oceanic telephone cable, was retired
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Public Cell Phone Tests Begin
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In Chicago, cell phones were given at random to the people there to test the cell phone uses in everyday life
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Japan's 1st cellular network
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In Japan, their 1st cell phone network was set up. Now phone service was starting to spread all around the world!
Source: www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/telephone.htm